Callow vs Callus - What's the difference?
callow | callus |
(obsolete) Bald.
Unfledged (of a young bird).
* Dryden
Immature, lacking in life experience.
Lacking color or firmness (of some kinds of insects or other arthropods, such as spiders, just after ecdysis). Teneral.
Shallow or weak-willed.
Unburnt (of a brick)
A callow young bird.
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.
A hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.
* 2011 ,David Foster Wallace The Pale King , page 17:
The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistency, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece.
(botany) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets.
To form such hardened tissue
As nouns the difference between callow and callus
is that callow is a callow young bird while callus is a hardened area of the skin (especially on the foot or hand) caused by repeated friction, wear or use.As an adjective callow
is (obsolete) bald.As a verb callus is
to form such hardened tissue.callow
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Adjective
(en-adj)- And in the leafy summit spy'd a nest, / Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed.
- Those three young men are particularly callow youths.
Noun
Anagrams
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(wikipedia callus)Noun
(en-noun)- Sylvanshine had once been on a first date with a Xerox rep who had complex and slightly repulsive patterns of callus on her fingers from playing the banjo semi-professionally