Meaning of Callow | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. Synonym of teneral (“an insect or other arthropod such as a spider which has just undergone ecdysis (“shedding of the exoskeleton”) and so lacks colour or firmness”).
   countable, uncountable
3. A low-lying meadow near a river which is regularly submerged.
   Ireland
4. An alluvial flat.
   countable, uncountable
5. The upper layer of rubble in a quarry which has to be removed to reach the material to be mined.
   UK, archaic, countable, regional, uncountable
6. A young bird which has not developed feathers yet; a nestling.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
7. A person lacking life experience; an immature or naive person.
   countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable
8. Synonym of topsoil (“upper layer of soil”).
   East-Anglia, countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: bog, fen, marsh, swamp, mire, moor, slough”

“The crops of hay carried off by the floods, or rendered utterly valueless, were not the only losses sustained by the landholders. The extensive callows upon which they grazed their cattle during the autumn and early winter, were unavailable this season.”

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