Callow vs Warren - What's the difference?
callow | warren |
(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.
The system of burrows where rabbits live.
An enclosed piece of land set aside for breeding game, especially rabbits.
(figuratively) A mazelike place of dark alleys etc in which it's easy to lose oneself; especially one that may be overcrowded.
A heart-shaped hoe.
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As nouns the difference between callow and warren
is that callow is a callow young bird while warren is the system of burrows where rabbits live.As an adjective callow
is bald.As a proper noun Warren is
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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.