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ripening

noun as in gestation

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The ideal tomme-ripening cave sat below the house that her family had just sold.

The 2017 growing season was exceptional, being a warm year with a good amount of rainfall to fully ripen the fruit and maintain a nice acidity.

From Fortune

If you decide to include the pears to serve as a dessert later, look for ones that are just ripening — not hard and woody, not soft.

This was the third hot, dry vintage in a row, explains Master of Wine Jasper Morris, author of Inside Burgundy, who describes a July with brutal heat waves that pushed ripening.

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I remember ripening coffee beans hanging down the banks, and masses of wild orchids.

The plant is strong and vigorous, ripening in a few weeks, and when properly cultivated (p. 385) attaining a very large size.

Even the first blossoms of your youth paid us all that could be expected from a ripening manhood.

Trellises, burdened with ripening grapes, were the boundary line between the garden and the orchard.

Under the corners of her eyes above the rounded cheeks a pink stain lay like the first ripening flush on a wild strawberry.

Nothing but brabblings, scufflings, objurgations; a great outbreak ripening itself.

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On this page you'll find 118 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ripening, such as: advancement, evolution, expansion, improvement, increase, and progress.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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