Callow vs Vestigial - What's the difference?
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(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.
Of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a trace from the past.
Not fully developed in mature animals.
Callow is a related term of vestigial.
As adjectives the difference between callow and vestigial
is that callow is (obsolete) bald while vestigial is of or pertaining to a vestige or remnant; like a trace from the past.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.