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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Obscuro_, dark red; _Colorado Maduro_, red-ripe or mellow;

    Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Lights and Shadows of Real Life 1847

  • 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

    WN.com - Articles related to Community Gardens 2010

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