CALLOW
callow
Noun
- A callow young bird.
- 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.
Adjective
- Bald.
- Unfledged (of a young bird).
- Immature, lacking in life experience.
- Those three young men are particularly callow youths.
- Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis). Teneral.
- Shallow or weak-willed.
- Unburnt (of a brick)
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