Callow

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lacking adult maturity or experience; immature: a callow young man.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Bald.
  • adj. Unfledged (of a young bird).
  • adj. Immature, lacking in life experience.
  • adj. Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis). Teneral.
  • adj. Shallow or weak-willed.
  • adj. Unburnt (of a brick)
  • n. A callow young bird.
  • n. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged.
  • adj. Immature; boyish; “green”.
  • n. A kind of duck. See old squaw.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Bald; without hair.
  • Without feathers; that has not yet put forth feathers; naked; unfledged, as a young bird: as, “callow young,”
  • Pertaining to an unfledged bird: as, “callow down,” Drayton, The Owl.
  • Youthful; juvenile; very immature: as, a callow youth.
  • n. A bald person; a baldhead.
  • n. An alluvial flat along a river-course: a term used by writers on Irish geology and agriculture.
  • n. In coal-mining, the baring, or cover, of open workings.
  • Having the character of an alluvial flat: as, callow land; a callow meadow.
  • n. In entomology, an insect just emerged from its cocoon: especially applied to ants.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. young and inexperienced
  • Equivalent
    Variant
    old squaw   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    naked    unfledged    immature    boyish    “green    featherless    inexperienced   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Gallo    ballow    balow    cavallo    gallow    hallow    mallow    palo    shallow    tallow   
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