callow

adjective · nounA2

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adjective
Comparative
callowermore callow
Superlative
callowestmost callow
  1. 1.

    Of a person: having no hair; bald, bare, hairless.

  2. 2.

    (masonry) Of a brick: unburnt.

  3. 3.

    Of a young bird, or (part of) its body: having not developed feathers yet; featherless, unfledged; hence, of other animals or their bodies: having no fur or hair; furless, hairless, unfurred.

  4. 4.

    (broadly)In the life cycle of an animal: newly born or hatched; juvenile.

    a callow bee

  5. 5.

    (broadly)Synonym of teneral (“of certain insects or other arthropods such as spiders: lacking colour or firmness just after ecdysis (“shedding of the exoskeleton”)”).

    Đồng nghĩa: teneral

  6. 6.

    (obsolete)Of land: having no vegetation; bare.

  7. 7.

    (Ireland)Of land: low-lying and near a river, and thus regularly submerged.

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
callows
  1. 1.

    (countable, uncountable)(entomology) Synonym of teneral (“an insect or other arthropod such as a spider which has just undergone ecdysis (“shedding of the exoskeleton”) and so lacks colour or firmness”).

    Đồng nghĩa: teneral

  2. 2.

    (countable, uncountable)(geology) An alluvial flat.

  3. 3.

    (UK, archaic, countable, regional, uncountable)(UK, regional, mining, archaic) The upper layer of rubble in a quarry which has to be removed to reach the material to be mined.

  4. 4.

    (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A young bird which has not developed feathers yet; a nestling.

  5. 5.

    (East Anglia, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of topsoil (“upper layer of soil”).

    Đồng nghĩa: topsoil

  6. 6.

    (Ireland)A low-lying meadow near a river which is regularly submerged.

    Near-synonyms: bog, fen, marsh, swamp, mire, moor, slough

    Đồng nghĩa: flood meadow, water meadow, bog, fen, marsh, swamp, mire, moor, slough

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Đồng nghĩa

teneraltopsoilflood meadowwater meadowbogfenmarshswampmiremoorsloughgreenwet behind the ears

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ine-pro From Middle English calwe ((adjective) bald; (noun) bald person), from Old English calu, caluw (without hair, bald, callow), from *kalu, from Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (bald; bare, naked), and then either:

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