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What does callow mean?

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Adjective
  1. (obsolete) Bald.
  2. Unfledged (of a young bird).
  3. Immature, lacking in life experience.
  4. Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis); teneral.
  5. Shallow or weak-willed.
  6. (of a brick) Unburnt.
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.
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