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MATURED |
Ripened |
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AGED |
Ripened |
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INCONCOCTED |
Imperfectly digested, matured, or ripened. |
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RIPE |
Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness. |
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ENDOCARP |
The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary. |
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INDIGESTED |
Not ripened or suppurated; -- said of an abscess or its
contents. |
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GREEN |
Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as,
green fruit, corn, vegetables, etc. |
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RIPEN |
To cause to mature; to make ripe; as, the warm days
ripened the corn. |
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EPICARP |
The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened
ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp. |
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PERICARP |
The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts.
of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume. |
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FRUIT |
The ripened ovary of a flowering plant, with its contents
and whatever parts are consolidated with it. |
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DEFOLIATION |
The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or
stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves. |
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AUTOCARPIAN |
Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts
adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape. |
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SEED |
A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more
integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By
germination it produces a new plant. |
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HOTHOUSE |
A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs
from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may
be reared, and fruits ripened. |