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unripened

a. Not ripened; still unripe.

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unripened

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

Usage examples of "unripened".

Pawldo now sauntered, inspecting with pleasure the clumps of unripened grapes growing plump and sweet in the sun.

Dobbs was almost as bad as Orr, who seemed happy as an undersized, grinning lark with his deranged and galvanic giggle and shivering warped buck teeth and who was sent along for a rest leave with Milo and Yossarian on the trip to Cairo for eggs when Milo bought cotton instead and took off at dawn for Istanbul with his plane packed to the gun turrets with exotic spiders and unripened red bananas.

Who, had he stayed to husband her, had spun The strength he taxed unripened for his throw, In vengeful casts calamitous, On fields where palsying Pyrrhic laurels grow, The luminous the ruinous.

Instead of saving the National Soul from demon rum, this policy was directly responsible for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of innocent people being murdered in gang wars or poisoned by severely unripened beverages.

Instead he went to the sihornish vines, which were festooned with unripened fruits, still yellow.

This was not the pain of a hangover, of raw grapes and bitter mash, the pain of a stomachache, of sour wine and unripened cheese.

Then some nearby pinecones, followed by the unripened berries on a mulberry bush.

The head of the tallest of them barely came up to his shoulder, and their pale green skin had the hard glossy sheen of a polished, unripened apple.

Yet she had sensed nothing, just the pleasant northern wind, the spray from the river, the scents of flowers and yet unripened mangoesand the next instant, the mortal boy had her in his arms, enfolding her like a lover in his warm embrace.

It was up in a grapefruit tree, hurling unripened fruit at passing humans.

Clusters of the flowers are gathered in their unripened green state, put into a stone jar and covered with boiling vinegar.