(~r, ~st)
1.
Ripe fruit or grain is fully grown and ready to eat.
Always choose firm, but ~ fruit.
...fields of ~ wheat.
ADJ
~ness
Test the figs for ~ness.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
If a situation is ~ for a particular development or event, you mean that development or event is likely to happen soon.
Conditions were ~ for an outbreak of cholera...
ADJ: v-link ADJ for n/-ing
3.
If someone lives to a ~ old age, they live until they are very old.
He lived to the ~ old age of 95.
PHRASE: prep PHR