unripe
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Such fine-grained analysis of fruit, if currently unripe, could also help inform forecasts of when it will be ripe.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Tomatoes, for example, grow in clusters, which means a robot must carefully select ripe fruit while leaving unripe ones untouched.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 18, 2026
On a hot morning in mid-July at the community farm, a patch of lush green ringed by high-rise apartments, Oh inspected his bananas’ progress: still unripe but noticeably fatter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2024
Some Chinese consumers have complained that durians are arriving unripe.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2024
‘But I deem the time unripe; and I have no mind for strife except with our Enemy and his servants.’
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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