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a. Insufficiently ripe for harvesting or eating alt. Insufficiently ripe for harvesting or eating
Usage examples of "underripe".
He bought himself a slightly underripe orange obviously imported, as the Amramionic climate was clearly unsuitable for orangesand headed for the nearest inn, hoping that the fantasies he had had about life along the highway might yet come true, at least in part.
I could hear the sound of bitterness that tinged his words like the bite of an underripe orange.
Cameras, lights, and reflectors were all focused on a very fluffy cat the color of an underripe cantaloupe, wearing a cubic zirconium collar.
I attempted to warn her that I looked unfortunately like an underripe apple, but she would not heed my warnings.
His only similarity to the other two was the color of his skin: a dusky purple like an underripe Damson plum but with more blue.
Every tiny, underripe fruit plucked from the grapevine was chewed lavishly at the water cooler, the copy room, the storage closet.