ripening

I remember ripening coffee beans hanging down the banks, and masses of wild orchids.

The plant is strong and vigorous, ripening in a few weeks, and when properly cultivated (p. 385) attaining a very large size.

Even the first blossoms of your youth paid us all that could be expected from a ripening manhood.

Trellises, burdened with ripening grapes, were the boundary line between the garden and the orchard.

Under the corners of her eyes above the rounded cheeks a pink stain lay like the first ripening flush on a wild strawberry.

Nothing but brabblings, scufflings, objurgations; a great outbreak ripening itself.