unripe

Example Sentences

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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

"It was unripe — there was no action by the EPA that Louisiana could challenge," said Kron.

From Salon • Jul. 1, 2023

His sheep are fed a diet of saffron milk, dates and unripe bananas.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2022

The unripe pods were either green or vividly yellow, the ripe pods either loose or tight.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee