callow

a. 年轻而无经验的, (鸟)羽毛未丰的 [机] 无羽毛的

发音

UK /ˈkæləʊ/
其它
US /ˈkæloʊ/

词形变化

callows 复数 callower 比较级 more callow 比较级 callowest 最高级 most callow 最高级

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    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”).

    可数 不可数 生物 动物学
  2. 2.

    An alluvial flat.

    可数 不可数 地质
  3. 3.

    The upper layer of rubble in a quarry which has to be removed to reach the material to be mined.

    英国 古体 可数 不可数 商务 采矿
  4. 4.

    A young bird which has not developed feathers yet; a nestling.

    可数 废旧 不可数 生物 动物学
  5. 5.

    A young bird which has not developed feathers yet; a nestling.

    A person lacking life experience; an immature or naive person.

    可数 比喻 废旧 不可数 生物 动物学
  6. 6.

    Synonym of topsoil (“upper layer of soil”).

    可数 废旧 不可数
  7. 1.

    A low-lying meadow near a river which is regularly submerged.

    爱尔兰

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

adj.
  1. 1.

    Of a person: having no hair; bald, bare, hairless.

  2. 2.

    Of a brick: unburnt.

    商务 建筑 工程
  3. 3.

    Of a young bird, or (part of) its body: having not developed feathers yet; featherless, unfledged; hence, of other animals or their bodies: having no fur or hair; furless, hairless, unfurred.

    生物 动物学
  4. 4.

    Of a young bird, or (part of) its body: having not developed feathers yet; featherless, unfledged; hence, of other animals or their bodies: having no fur or hair; furless, hairless, unfurred.

    Lacking life experience; immature, inexperienced, naive; also, of or relating to something immature or inexperienced.

    没经年

    比喻 生物 动物学

    Those three young men are particularly callow youths.

  5. 5.

    In the life cycle of an animal: newly born or hatched; juvenile.

    生物 动物学 引申义

    a callow bee

  6. 6.

    Synonym of teneral (“of certain insects or other arthropods such as spiders: lacking colour or firmness just after ecdysis (“shedding of the exoskeleton”)”).

    生物 动物学 引申义
  7. 7.

    Of land: having no vegetation; bare.

    废旧
  8. 1.

    Of land: low-lying and near a river, and thus regularly submerged.

    爱尔兰

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 2

fledgling unfledged

近义相关 1

inexperienced

相关短语

Callow Hill

词源

From Middle English calwe (“(adjective) bald; (noun) bald person”), from Old English calu, caluw (“without hair, bald, callow”), from Proto-West Germanic *kalu, from Proto-Germanic *kalwaz (“bald; bare, naked”), and then either: * from Proto-Indo-European *gol(H)-wo- (“bald; bare, naked”), from *gelH- (“head; naked”); or * from Latin calvus (“bald”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kl̥H- (“bald; naked”). If not borrowed from Latin, Grimm’s law indicates that the Latin word is likely a false cognate, along with Persian کل (kal) and Sanskrit कुल्व (kulvá). cognates * Dutch kaal (“bald”) * German kahl (“bald”) * German Low German kahl (“bald”) * Russian го́лый (gólyj, “bare, naked, nude”) * Swedish kal, kalka (“bald”) * West Frisian keal (“bald”)

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