Callow Definition

kălō
adjective
callower, callowest
Still lacking the feathers needed for flying; unfledged.
Webster's New World
Young and inexperienced; immature.
Webster's New World

Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis). Teneral.

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Unburnt (of a brick)

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noun
A callow young bird.
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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.

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Other Word Forms of Callow

Noun

Singular:
callow
Plural:
callows

Adjective

Base Form:
callow
Comparative:
callower
Superlative:
callowest

Origin of Callow

  • From Middle English calwe (“bald”), from Old English calu (“callow, bare, bald”), from Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bare, naked, bald”), from Proto-Indo-European *gAlw- (“naked, bald”). Cognate with West Frisian keal (“bald”), Dutch kaal (“bald”), German kahl (“bald”), Russian голый (gólyj, “nude”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English calwe bald from Old English calu

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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