late-ripening

1. 1.

   of plants that ripen in the fall

   Similarautumnal

Questions about late-ripening

What does late-ripening mean?

late-ripening means "of plants that ripen in the fall".

How many syllables are in late-ripening?

late-ripening has 5 syllables: la-te--ri-pe-ning. The stress falls on "ri".

Is late-ripening a common word?

late-ripening is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.