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Rarecallow
The correct spelling is callow.
How to pronounce callow
noun
IPA: /ˈkaləʊ/
Say it like: Cal-low
The correct spelling is callow. A callow young bird. For example: "Those three young men are particularly callow youths."
Usage Examples
“Those three young men are particularly callow youths.”
Meanings
noun
- 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.
- 3.An alluvial flat.
adjective
- 1.Unfledged (of a young bird).
- 2.(by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.
- 3.Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
- 4.Shallow or weak-willed.
- 5.(of a brick) Unburnt.
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