callow
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Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Of a person: having no hair; bald, bare, hairless.
- 2.
(masonry) Of a brick: unburnt.
- 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.
(broadly)In the life cycle of an animal: newly born or hatched; juvenile.
a callow bee
- 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.
(obsolete)Of land: having no vegetation; bare.
- 7.
(Ireland)Of land: low-lying and near a river, and thus regularly submerged.
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noun- 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.
(countable, uncountable)(geology) An alluvial flat.
- 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.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A young bird which has not developed feathers yet; a nestling.
- 5.
(East Anglia, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of topsoil (“upper layer of soil”).
Đồng nghĩa: topsoil
- 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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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: