(of fruits, vegetables, seeds etc.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature / (of foods) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow

(agriculture) A fruit or vegetable which has ripened.

To ripen or mature

The bank of a river.

(transitive, obsolete) To search; to rummage.

the characteristic of being ripe

In a ripe way. / maturely; at the suitable time

plural of ripe

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ripe

simple past tense and past participle of ripe