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unfledged


adjective

  1. not fledged; without sufficient feathers for flight, as a young bird.
  2. immature; callow.

adjective

  1. (of a young bird) not having developed adult feathers
  2. immature and undeveloped

adj.c.1600, of persons, “immature, not experienced,” from un- (1) “not” + past participle of fledge. Literal sense of “not yet covered in feathers” is recorded from 1610s.

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