Usually means: Inexperienced and immature in behavior.
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  1. callow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. callow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. callow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. callow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. callow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Callow, callow: Wordnik
  7. callow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Callow, callow: Wiktionary
  9. callow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. callow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. callow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Callow, callow: Dictionary.com
  13. callow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Callow (surname), Callow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Callow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. callow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. callow: Rhymezone
  18. callow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. callow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. callow: Free Dictionary
  21. callow: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. callow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Callow, callow: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. callow: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. callow: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

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  1. callow: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See callowness as well.)

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adjective:  Bald, hairless, bare.
adjective:  Unfledged (of a young bird), featherless.
adjective:  (by extension, life-cycle developmental stage) Newly emerged or hatched, juvenile.
adjective:  (by extension) Immature, lacking in life experience.
adjective:  Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
adjective:  Shallow or weak-willed.
adjective:  (of a brick) Unburnt.
adjective:  Of land: low-lying and liable to be submerged.
noun:  A callow young bird.
noun:  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.
noun:  An alluvial flat.
noun:  A surname.

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