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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unripe
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
unripe bananas
▪ Don't use unripe apples for making cider.
▪ The cherries on the tree were still unripe.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Black peppercorns are the unripe, green berries which have been allowed to dry and blacken in the sun after picking.
▪ Green, or unripe, peppercorns are available both commercially dried and pickled in brine.
▪ In the Old World, chimpanzees can deal with unripe fruits, breaking open tannin-rich mature fruits or eating unripe ones.
▪ Matriline coalitions also utilize secondary food sources such as leaves and unripe fruits and the species have digestive mechanisms for detoxifying the latter.
▪ What they call unripe fruit ....
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unripe

Unripe \Un*ripe"\, a.

  1. Not ripe; as, unripe fruit.

  2. Developing too early; premature.
    --Sir P. Sidney.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unripe

Old English unripe "premature" (in reference to death), from un- (1) "not" + ripe (adj.). Meaning "immature, not fully developed (of fruit, etc.) is recorded from mid-13c. Similar formation in Middle Dutch onrijp, Old High German unrifi, German unreif.

Wiktionary
unripe

a. 1 Not ripe. 2 Developing too early; premature.

WordNet
unripe
  1. adj. not fully developed or mature; not ripe; "unripe fruit"; "fried green tomatoes"; "green wood" [syn: green, unripened, immature] [ant: ripe]

  2. not fully prepared

Usage examples of "unripe".

If obtained by expression from the unripe fruit, it is very useful as an astringent medicine, and is a popular remedy for stopping a flow of blood from the nose.

Similarly some of the fresh stalks of the plant, and its unripe berries, as well as the unpeeled tubers cut up as described, if infused for some hours in cold water, will make a liquor in which the folded linen of a compress may be loosely rung out, and applied most serviceably under waterproof tissue, or a double layer of dry flannel.

Now and then he heard the thump and roll of an unripe persimmon as it dropped on the thin roof over his head.

Effectiveness of a low-fat vegetarian diet in altering serum lipids in healthy premenopausal women: Antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of unripe papaya.

In Norfolk, the green, unripe fruit is called Thape, and the schoolboys in that county well know Thape pie, made from green Gooseberries.

The human extractor has the advantage that he or she can distinguish the diseased, unripe or germinated beans and separate them from the good ones.

At this the girl seemed to reflect a moment, and then recited some verses from the Priapeia to the effect that unripe fruit is often more piquant than that which is ripe.

From time to time a man would break ranks to snatch a green apple or an ear of unripe corn from the farmlands on either side of the road, while other men broke ranks to be ill behind a hedge, but always they hurried on after their com-rades and pushed themselves back into line.

The dried, unripe fruits, or Chinese Cassia Buds, have the odour and taste of the bark, and are rather like small cloves in appearance.

He was no sooner awake than he began to prepare himself for supper by eating galette, unripe pears, and cold potatoes--with, so far as I could judge, positive benefit to his appetite.

The gooseberries behind the makeshift fences were unripe: Mahlke began to pick with both hands.

He was still gobbling unripe gooseberries, compelling me, like his aunt, to worry about his physical well-being: "You're going to upset your stomach.

The odd drab-green olives joined the twigs, brought down a little unripe.

That was because they hadn't used an unripe Sunset Wonder picked three minutes before noon on the first frosty day in the autumn and peeled left-handedly using a silver knife with a blade less than half an inch wide.

That was because they hadn’t used an unripe Sunset Wonder picked three minutes before noon on the first frosty day in the autumn and peeled left-handedly using a silver knife with a blade less than half an inch wide.