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Definition of Ripeners
1. ripener [n] - See also: ripener
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ripeners
Literary usage of Ripeners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Report of the Agricultural State, and Political Circumstances, of by Sir John Sinclair (1814)
"These varieties may be classed under two general descriptions, early and late
ripeners, or hot-seed and cold-seed, or, as named in some places, ..."
2. Annual Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture by Pennsylvania Dept. of Agriculture (1898)
"The agents of the Department of Agriculture have, more than during any previous
year, been brought in contact with the use of cream ripeners in the ..."
3. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1803)
"I know of two or three such trees in different parts of our town, which might,
perhaps, be propagated from, as early ripeners or September trees, ..."
4. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1893)
"I know of two or three such trees in different parts of our town, which might,
perhaps, be propagated from, as early ripeners or September trees, ..."
5. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1892)
"... the Newtown Pippin,Red Pearmain,and Spitzenberg among the best keepers, and
the Rhode Island Greening, which is the monarch of all the fall ripeners. ..."
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