- RIPER
- More mature
- Not so green
- More ready to pick
- More ready to eat
- Less green, as a fruit
- More mature, as a melon
- Closer to its prime
- More offensive
- More mellow
- More edible, as a fruit
- Not as immature
- Less green, perhaps
- More suitable for eating, perhaps
- Not as green
- Less green
- More fully developed
- Less firm, maybe
- Like red peppers, vis-à-vis green ones
- More advanced, in a way
- More apt to be picked
- More fleshy, perhaps
- Closer to being harvested
- Closer to maturity
- Redder, perhaps
- More aged, as cheese
- More mellowed
- More developed
- Less green, as fruit
- Not as green, perhaps
- Closer to fruition
- More fit for harvesting
- More auspicious
- Mellower.
- Fuller, richer.
- Approaching maturity.
- Redder.
- More full blown.
- Almost ready for plucking.
- Not so callow
- More aged
- More ready
- More suitable
- Redder, as a tomato
- More red, maybe
- Relatively ready
- Tenderer, maybe
- Less green, say
- More yellow, but not yet brown, say
- Less green, as a banana
- Like a yellow banana vis-à-vis a green one
- ___ years (old age)
- Closer to being ready
- Yellower, as a banana
- Softer, as a banana
- Closer to pluck-worthy
- More pickable
- More harvest-ready
- Readier to pick
- Nearer to maturity
- Readier for harvesting
- Juicier, as a pear
- Closer to being edible
- Less green, maybe
