callow

/ˈkaləʊ/ · noun

Meaning

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.
An alluvial flat.
Unfledged (of a young bird).
(by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.
Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
Shallow or weak-willed.
(of a brick) Unburnt.
Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.

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