callow
adjective
1. young and inexperienced
Similar word(s): inexperienced, inexperient, fledgling, unfledged
Sentences with callow as an adjective:
- Those three young men are particularly callow youths.
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.