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# unfledged

«unfledged» in Mova's school dictionary: **Of a young bird, not yet grown its feathers, so it cannot…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective

### meaning for a pupil

1) Of a young bird, not yet grown its feathers, so it cannot fly yet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfledged/#m1)

2) (figurative) young and not yet experienced. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfledged/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, the young birds in a nest that have no feathers and must wait to be fed; in a tale the young nestlings are helpless and depend on their parents

### examples

- The unfledged chicks sat with open beaks in the nest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfledged/#x1)
- Mum bird flew off to find worms for the unfledged young. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfledged/#x2)
- Our class felt like unfledged learners on the first day of the new school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfledged/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unfledged» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unfledged/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.