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English translation: olives turning color at a maximum of 50%

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Italian term or phrase:	invaiate
English translation:	olives turning color at a maximum of 50%
Entered by:	Alexander Chisholm

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15:08 Feb 10, 2012

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Tech/Engineering - Botany / olives

Italian term or phrase: invaiate

This is from a document describing various olive cultivars fund throughout Italy and their growth and harvesting conditions.

"Stato maturazione olive: Verdi o al massimo invaiate al 50 %"

Is there are particular olive growing term for this or is it simply "darkened"?

Alexander Chisholm KudoZ activity Questions: 3058 (none open) (21 without valid answers) (9 closed without grading) Answers: 197
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olives turning color at a maximum of 50%

Explanation:
see websites below. Also checked with a client of mine who specializes in the olive growing sector.

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sstamey
Local time: 05:24

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4 +2

olives turning color at a maximum of 50%

sstamey

veraison

Isabelle Johnson

black maturation phase

Dr Lofthouse

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9 mins confidence:

black maturation phase

Explanation:
I stress I'm not an expert, but 'black maturation' came back on google search for 'olive maturation' . E.g. see

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf035300p

Dr Lofthouse
United Kingdom
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

Italian

12 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

olives turning color at a maximum of 50%

Explanation:
see websites below. Also checked with a client of mine who specializes in the olive growing sector.

Example sentence(s):

“Green olives, olives turning colour or black olives that have ...\
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Reference: http://www.google.it/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=olives%20turning%20col...
Reference: http://www.google.it/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=olives%20turning%20col...

sstamey
Local time: 05:24
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Many thanks.

12 mins confidence:

veraison

Explanation:
I'm not an expert either but this term seems to be used too - i.e in your context 50% veraison. This is an Australian reference:
Veraison to Harvest
www.wgmb.net.au/.../Veraison_to_harvest_gro... - Traduci questa pagina
Formato file: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Versione HTML
Assessing vine health parameters at veraison. 6. 2.1 ..... than 50% veraison. ..... Herbaceous-capsicum-tomato bush-leafy-mint-dusty-black olive-blackcurrant ...

Isabelle Johnson
Italy
Local time: 05:24
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English

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