ripe

Definitions

1. A village in Chalvington with Ripe parish, Wealden district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ5110).
2. A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.
3. The bank of a river.
4. A tuberculosis treatment regimen consisting of rifampicin (R), isoniazid (I), pyrazinamide (P), and ethambutol (E).
   uncountable
5. mature, of relatively old age (said of people)
6. ellipsis of plátano maduro (“a ripe plantain”)
7. first-person singular present indicative of madurar

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Examples

“When he realized that the ripes would not make⟳ it back to Selma, Zemurray offered a free bunch of bananas to any telegraph operator who notified local grocers that he was coming through with a shipment of bananas.”

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