Word of the Day, 6th June 2005
Unfledged \uhn-FLEJD\, adjective:
1. Lacking the feathers necessary for flight.
2. Not fully developed; immature.
Examples.
1. It is most likely that this parrot was caught when very young, even possibly unfledged, and was totally nurtured by humans.--D'vora Ben Shaul, "A parrot in a man's world"
2. Some also charge the leaders with sheltering unfledged youth from the real world or, as one public education official quoted in the Washington Post put it, "prolonging a cocoon existence." --Helen Mondloch, "Homegrown Virtue on Campus"
1. Lacking the feathers necessary for flight.
2. Not fully developed; immature.
Examples.
1. It is most likely that this parrot was caught when very young, even possibly unfledged, and was totally nurtured by humans.--D'vora Ben Shaul, "A parrot in a man's world"
2. Some also charge the leaders with sheltering unfledged youth from the real world or, as one public education official quoted in the Washington Post put it, "prolonging a cocoon existence." --Helen Mondloch, "Homegrown Virtue on Campus"
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