Synonymer

Uttal

  • US:
    • IPA: [ˈkæloʊ]

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Definitioner

Adjektiv

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

Substantiv

  1. A callow young bird.
  2. 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.

Exempel

  • And in the leafy summit spy'd a nest, / Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed.
  • Those three young men are particularly callow youths.

Böjningsformer

Pluralcallows
Komparativcallower
Komparativmore callow
Superlativcallowest
Superlativmost callow