Callow

Quick meaning: Callow is an adjective meaning Of a person: having no hair; bald, bare, hairless.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (masonry) Of a brick: unburnt.
2. In the life cycle of an animal: newly born or hatched; juvenile.
3. (geology) An alluvial flat.
4. 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.
5. Synonym of teneral (“of certain insects or other arthropods such as spiders: lacking colour or firmness just after ecdysis (“shedding of the exoskeleton”)”).
6. (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”).
7. (obsolete) Of land: having no vegetation; bare.

Example Sentences

This time it held a callow-headed baby in a pink frock.

These hands were marked of hard work and yet soft enough to tenderly hold the baby's little callow head.

A Snake of Size immenſe aſcends a Tree, / And in the leafie Summit, ſpy'd a Neſt, / VVhich o'er her Callovv Young, a Sparrovv preſs'd.

There was a sense abroad as he spoke that the world was rocking together to great music, and this callow-headed professor by the table had caught a note of it.

Word Forms

• callower
• callowest
• callows

Synonyms for callow

Depending on context, synonyms include topsoil, water meadow, bog, fen, marsh, swamp.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unsophisticated, naive, inexperienced, immature, hairless, bald.

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