Callow vs Embryonic - What's the difference?
callow | embryonic | Related terms |
(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.
(embryology) Of or relating to an embryo.
(figuratively) Something, especially a project, that is very new and is still evolving; something that has yet to reach its full potential.
Callow is a related term of embryonic.
As adjectives the difference between callow and embryonic
is that callow is (obsolete) bald while embryonic is (embryology) of or relating to an embryo.As a noun callow
is a callow young bird.callow
English
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.
