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rare•ripe
(râr′rīp′),USA pronunciation [Bot.]
adj.
n.
adj.
- Botanyripening early.
n.
- Botanya fruit or vegetable that ripens early.
- rare, early variant (obsolete except Brit. dialect, dialectal) of rathe + ripe 1715–25, American.