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| adolescent |
characteristic of adolescence rather than adulthood; immature. [1/3 definitions] |
| boy |
a young immature man. [1/4 definitions] |
| callow |
lacking adult sophistication or judgment; inexperienced; immature. |
| chick |
a newly hatched or immature bird or fowl, esp. a chicken. [1/3 definitions] |
| child |
someone who acts in a childish or immature way. [1/5 definitions] |
| cocoon |
a fibrous covering produced by immature insects, such as butterfly and moth larvae, to protect them during metamorphosis, or by some spiders to hide their eggs. [1/2 definitions] |
| colony collapse disorder |
an event in which all or most of the worker bees of a hive disappear, leaving in the hive the queen, the immature bees, and some adult bees to care for the immature bees, and the honey. |
| cub |
the immature offspring of certain meat-eating mammals, such as the bear, lion, or fox. [2 definitions] |
| duckling |
an immature duck. |
| fixate |
to develop and persist in an immature psychological attachment, or to suffer arrested emotional development. [1/5 definitions] |
| green pepper |
any immature, unripened garden pepper. [1/2 definitions] |
| hematoblast |
an immature blood cell. |
| infantilism |
an abnormal condition of an adult marked by the persistence of immature mental and physical development and behavior, including lack of sexual maturation. [1/2 definitions] |
| juvenile |
intellectually immature; childish. [1/4 definitions] |
| larva |
the young of other animals that undergo metamorphosis, at a similarly immature stage. [1/2 definitions] |
| oocyte |
a cell in the earliest stage of transformation into a female egg; immature egg. |
| owlet |
a small or immature owl. |
| puerile |
immature or silly; childish. [1/2 definitions] |
| puppy love |
infatuation or immature love, esp. between a boy and girl. |
| rudimentary |
of, or in the nature of, a rudiment; immature or undeveloped; vestigial. [1/2 definitions] |
| sophomoric |
displaying intellectual pretentiousness or proud confidence about one's knowledge when actually poorly informed or immature. |
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