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Our 3-D photoreceptor eyesight stems from the need to notice red-ripe fruits in a sea of green leaves and foliage.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Our 3-D photoreceptor eyesight stems from the need to notice red-ripe fruits in a sea of green leaves and foliage.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Our 3-D photoreceptor eyesight stems from the need to notice red-ripe fruits in a sea of green leaves and foliage.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Innocent but not ignorant, patient, yet capable of a hearty little grumble at her lot, Pippa is "human to the red-ripe of the heart."
Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne
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Obscuro_, dark red; _Colorado Maduro_, red-ripe or mellow;
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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And red-ripe apples that blushed on the hills in the orchard of peace:
The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon 1878
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There was a sprinkling of belated cotton-bolls on the stubbly fields to the right of the road; a few ragged sunflowers were still abloom in the fence corners, where the pokeberries were red-ripe on their tall stalks.
Southern Lights and Shadows William Dean Howells 1878
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Borabolla; who, with his own hand, suspended from the shark's mouth of Media's canoe, three red-ripe bunches of plantains, a farewell gift to his guests.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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Before the company broke up, I almost blush to say, that there was scarcely a lady present who had not suffered her red-ripe lips to be touched by those of every young man in the room.
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SALAD MOROCCAN GRILLED PEPPER SALAD • 4 green bell peppers, 5 poblano peppers or 3 red bell peppers, plus 3 Anaheim or Cubanelle peppers • 2 luscious, red-ripe tomatoes, seeded and cut into 1/4-inch dice • ½
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