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| green |
not fully mature; unripe. [1/17 definitions] |
| malic acid |
a crystalline acid found esp. in unripe fruit such as apples and tomatoes. |
| olive green |
a yellowish green color; color of an unripe olive. |
| opium poppy |
a Eurasian annual poppy having grayish-green leaves and bearing large white, red, pink, or purple flowers, and oily seeds, the unripe pods of which may be harvested for their opium-containing sap. |
| papain |
an enzyme that digests protein, obtained from the juice of unripe papayas, and used for tenderizing meat and aiding digestion. |
| string bean |
any of the long green pods, eaten when unripe, that are produced by various bean plants; snap bean. |
| verjuice |
the sour juice of unripe fruit such as crab apples or grapes. [1/2 definitions] |
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