callow

  1. Adjective.  (obsolete) Bald.
  2. Adjective.  Unfledged (of a young bird).
  3. Adjective.  Immature, lacking in life experience.
  4. Adjective.  Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis). Teneral.
  5. Adjective.  Shallow or weak-willed.
  6. Adjective.  Unburnt (of a brick).
  7. Noun.  A callow young bird.
  8. Noun.  A callow phase of an insect or other arthropod.

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