adolescent vs fledgling

adolescent

noun
  • A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult. 

adj
  • Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult. 

fledgling

noun
  • An immature, naïve or inexperienced person. 

  • A young bird which has just developed its flight feathers (notably wings). 

  • An insect that has just fledged, i.e. undergone its final moult to become an adult or imago. 

adj
  • Emergent or rising. 

  • Untried or inexperienced. 

How often have the words adolescent and fledgling occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )