Ripe

ripe apples

So mayst thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop / Into thy mother's lap.

Plant breeding is always a numbers game.[…]The wild species we use are rich in genetic variation, […]. In addition, we are looking for rare alleles, so the more plants we try, the better. These rarities may be new mutations, or they can be existing ones that are neutral—or are even selected against—in a wild population. A good example is mutations that disrupt seed dispersal, leaving the seeds on the heads long after they are ripe.

ripe cheese

He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one.

And so may Place retain us still, ⁠And he the much-beloved again, ⁠A lord of large experience, train To riper growth the mind and will: […]

She was a feature of that piety, but even at the ripe stage of acquaintance in which they occasionally arranged to meet at a concert or to go together to an exhibition she was not a feature of anything else.

When you're ripe You'll bleed out of control

while things were just ripe for a war

I am not ripe to pass sentence on the gravest public bodies.

nor was the doom / of guilty deed, but of a hapless wight / to sudden madness stung, ere ripe to die, / therefore the Queen of Hades had not shorn / the fair tress from her forehead, nor assigned / that soul to Stygian dark.

But the time is ripe for changes. There's a growing feeling. That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due

I'm starting somethin' myself. I'm ripe to fight. It's this country air!

Those happy smilets, / That played on her ripe lip.

He looked back once at the waving hands, the mother's glowing, ripe cheeks.

Alonso: And Trinculo is reeling-ripe: where should they / Find this grand liquor that hath gilded them? / How cam'st thou in this pickle?

Problems emerge in judging whether a case is ripe, however, when contested general agency directives are issued that are not aimed at specific parties.

Dolores, giving her a bath yesterday, said she was a bit ripe under the armpits.

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.

[…] he answer'd, "Do not so; / Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio, / But stay the very riping of the time; / […]

The current state of the tech industry is ripe with danger and poses an existential threat, he believes.