callow

/ˈkaləʊ//ˈkæloʊ/

noun

  1. 1

    A callow young bird.

  2. 2

    A callow or teneral phase of an insect or other arthropod, typically shortly after ecdysis, while the skin still is hardening, the colours have not yet become stable, and as a rule, before the animal is able to move effectively.

  3. 3

    An alluvial flat.

adjective

  1. 1

    Unfledged (of a young bird).

  2. 2

    (by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.

    Those three young men are particularly callow youths.
  3. 3

    Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.

  4. 4

    Shallow or weak-willed.

  5. 5

    (of a brick) Unburnt.

  6. 6

    Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.

  7. 7

    Bald.

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