callow
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Of a person: having no hair; bald, bare, hairless.
- Of a brick: unburnt.
- Of a young bird, or (part of) its body: having not developed feathers yet; featherless, unfledged; hence, of other animals or their bodies: having no fur or hair; furless, hairless, unfurred.
- Of a young bird, or (part of) its body: having not developed feathers yet; featherless, unfledged; hence, of other animals or their bodies: having no fur or hair; furless, hairless, unfurred: Lacking life experience; immature, inexperienced, naive; also, of or relating to something immature or inexperienced.
- In the life cycle of an animal: newly born or hatched; juvenile.
- Synonym of teneral (“of certain insects or other arthropods such as spiders: lacking colour or firmness just after ecdysis (“shedding of the exoskeleton”)”).
- Of land: having no vegetation; bare.
- Of land: low-lying and near a river, and thus regularly submerged.
Noun
- Synonym of teneral (“an insect or other arthropod such as a spider which has just undergone ecdysis (“shedding of the exoskeleton”) and so lacks colour or firmness”).
- An alluvial flat.
- The upper layer of rubble in a quarry which has to be removed to reach the material to be mined.
- A young bird which has not developed feathers yet; a nestling.
- A young bird which has not developed feathers yet; a nestling: A person lacking life experience; an immature or naive person.
- Synonym of topsoil (“upper layer of soil”).
- A low-lying meadow near a river which is regularly submerged.
Proper noun
- A surname.
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