When ripe, it splits into two boat-shaped, keeled valves, which separate from a central membrane to which the seeds are attached.
The fruits are three-cornered nuts, enclosed in the hardened cupules which split longitudinally, when ripe, into four valves that are lined with soft, silky hairs.
When ripe, the scales are woody and very hard, and as they separate, the winged, naked seeds are set free and dispersed by the wind.
It produces fruit of a golden colour, and equal in size to a large plum, which, when ripe, are agreeable to the taste, but hurtful to the stomach.
When ripe it turns black, and separates into three parts, thrusting out white cotton, full of black seeds, resembling pistachio nuts in size and shape.
The berries of the pepper-plant grow in spikes of from twenty to thirty, and are, when ripe, of a bright-red colour.
The leaves have been used to adulterate tea; the fruit, when ripe, makes a good preserve.
When ripe, it is cut down close to the stole, the stems are divided into lengths of about three feet, which are made up into bundles, and carried to the mill, to be crushed between rollers.
When ripe, they are ground into cayenne pepper, and sold as a condiment.
When ripe, the pericarp is very mealy and agreeable to eat, and would be wholesome, if it were not so extraordinarily astringent.
When ripe, they became sweet and pulpy, like gooseberries, although their rind was not very thick.
When ripe it is a dark purple, a clear red, or a bright yellow, for there are varieties.
When ripe it is red, and of an agreeable acid flavour.
When ripe it is soft, yellow, and well tasted, and may either be baked like pears, or coddled like apples.
When ripe it turns yellow, with a soft and sweet pulp; but the natives pull it green, and bake it in an oven till the rind grows black.
The calyxes, before maturity, are soft and fleshy; when ripe, hard and wood-like in texture.
When ripe, the fruit is deep-yellow or yellowish-brown.
When ripe, the stem-bulbs should be dried, and kept free from damp in a cool place.
When ripe, the contents of the antheridium are forced out into the water (G), leaving the empty outer wall behind, but still surrounded by a thin membrane.
When ripe, the antheridium opens at the end and discharges the spermatozoids, which are, however, so very small as scarcely to be visible except with the strongest lenses.
When ripe, the wall of the mother cell gives way, and the four spores escape into the water and give rise to new plants.
When ripe in autumn, the dry, incurved branches are quite stiff; the main stem near the ground easily snaps off and leaves the light ball at the mercy of the winds.
One of our peppergrasses, Lepidium intermedium, sometimes attains the size and shape of a bushel basket; when ripe, it is blown about, sowing seeds wherever it goes.
The perennial phlox in cultivation distributes its seeds in the following manner: when ripe, the calyx becomes dry and paper-like, and spreads out in the form of a saucer.
This grass, when ripe, has a very bad reputation among ranchmen for the annoyance the bearded grain causes them.
But, as already shown, the berries, when ripe, may be eaten freely without fear.
The shrubby stalks of the plant bear red, coral-like berries which, when ripe, yield grape sugar, and spargancin.
It is prepared by boiling the berries, when ripe, with an equal weight of sugar, and then straining.
When ripe, if mixed with gum arabic and lime water, they form the pigment called "Bladder Green.
The skin, when ripe, is of a fine lemon-color, with a fine blood-red cheek on one side.
Skin, smooth, of an uniform fine lemon color, when ripe, and strewed with star-like russety dots.
The Fruit is rotten, when ripe, and commonly contains four flat Kernels, call'd Stones, which is the Seed.
The tobacco, when ripe, is cut near the ground, and hung on small sticks about five feet in length, generally by pegs driven into the stalks.
The fruit is oblong and has a dense woolly growth of long cream-white hairs; when ripe it is red.
These the Mexicans and Indians eat when ripe, and the natives make a most palatable syrup from the jams or conserves.
The fruit of this tree is about the size of a large orange, and, when ripe, is of a rich yellow color, with a very decided and agreeable fragrance.
It is like an orange; the thick rind of the unripe fruit possesses astringent properties, and, when ripe, has an exquisite flavor and perfume.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "when ripe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
