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What does underripe mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word underripe? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Insufficiently ripe for harvesting or eating.
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When heavy rain or frost threatens, Craig suggests picking underripe but full-size tomatoes and storing them in a paper bag with an apple.
Use no water with cultivated grapes, but with underripe wild grapes, cup of water may be added to each quart of stemmed grapes.
Store In a fruit bowl, as underripe tomatoes won't ripen properly in the fridge and lose their flavour.
They should be picked when they are slightly underripe and stored in a cool place, then brought in a few at a time as needed.
But the fresh figs that were served with it were underripe, too cold and had not been properly trimmed, with the hard stalks still attached.
He gussies the desserts up with one good strawberry, a wedge of papaya and some pretty but underripe star fruit.

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