callow🔊

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

(masonry) Of a brick: unburnt.

(ornithology) 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.

(figurative) Lacking life experience; immature, inexperienced, naive; also, of or relating to something immature or inexperienced. +

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

(entomology) Of certain insects or other arthropods such as spiders: lacking color or firmness just after ecdysis (shedding of the exoskeleton). +

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

(entomology) An insect or other arthropod such as a spider which has just undergone ecdysis (shedding of the exoskeleton) and so lacks color or firmness. +

(geology) An alluvial flat.

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

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

(obsolete, figurative) A person lacking life experience; an immature or naive person.

(obsolete, East Anglia) Upper layer of soil. +

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

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