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Meanings of ripening in English

Portuguese
envelhecimento
Wikidata

Acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time.

        envelhecimento
        Portuguese
        maturação
        Catalan
        maduració
        Spanish
        maduración

        Coming to full development; becoming mature.

              maturação
              Usage of ripening in English
              1
              Fruit development and ripening are essential components of human and animal diets.
              Pubmed
              2
              Until the ripening time no one shall know what is here contracted.
              Ben-Hur
              3
              Consequently, the number of larvae, which feed on ripening tangerines, quickly declines.
              Reuters
              4
              This, however, was the large idea ripening in the breast of Carroway.
              Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
              5
              His plans are far from ripe, I think, but they are ripening.
              The lord of the rings
              6
              The arrows of the decumbent sun gilded the ripening grapes above them.
              In the Sweet Dry and Dry
              7
              The very crops ripening to harvest had been gathered in and burnt.
              Barlasch of the Guard
              8
              The essential role of ethylene in fruit ripening has been thoroughly studied.
              Pubmed
              9
              The great conspiracy was ripening and about to burst visibly to light.
              The increment: a novel
              10
              But the prize had always been there, ripening, waiting to be taken.
              Cold springs
              11
              The bananas give off ethylene, a clear, odorless gas that promotes ripening.
              The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
              12
              The wooing Indian climate was fast ripening the exquisite loveliness of eighteen.
              A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
              13
              Storage may be shortly before ripening or it may be for weeks.
              The Guardian
              14
              The summer fields were ripening and the grapevines were heavy with fruit.
              Oracle's Queen
              15
              He held her, and she looked past him at the ripening moon.
              Wizard and glass
              16
              Birotteau was like certain vegetables; transplant them, and you stop their ripening.
              The Vicar of Tours
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              Translations for ripening
              Catalan
              maduració
              Ripening through the time
              Ripening across language varieties
              United Kingdom
              Common
              United States of America
              Common