ripe

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ripe/rʌɪp/

▶adjective

• 1 (of fruit or grain) ready for harvesting and eating.

  ■ (of a cheese or wine) fully matured.

• 2 (ripe for) having arrived at a fitting time for.

  ■ (ripe with) full of.

• 3 (of a person's age) advanced.

• 4 informal (of a person's language) coarse.

• 5 (of a female fish or insect) ready to lay eggs or spawn.

– derivatives
ripely adverb,
ripeness noun.

– origin OE rīpe, of W. Gmc origin.