More apt to be picked

• Not so callow
• More fleshy, perhaps
• Juicier, as a pear
• More red, maybe
• More fit for picking
• More mature
• More yellow, but not yet brown, say
• Closer to being harvested
• Redder, as a tomato

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a. (en-comparative of: ripe )