Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A young tree.
- noun A youth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A young tree: especially applied to an immature forest-tree when its trunk attains three or four inches in diameter.
- noun Figuratively A young person.
- noun A greyhound that has never run in a coursing-match; a young greyhound from the time of whelping to the end of the first season thereafter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A young tree.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A young
tree , but bigger than aseedling . - noun figuratively A
youngster , especially a male nearing maturity.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun young tree
Etymologies
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Examples
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If you have some money to spend, you could follow country road's advice and by a sapling from a nursery, which could cut your wait time by a few years.
Has anyone ever tried to grow an oak tree from just an acorn? 2009
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If you have some money to spend, you could follow country road's advice and by a sapling from a nursery, which could cut your wait time by a few years.
Has anyone ever tried to grow an oak tree from just an acorn? 2009
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This was one of the planted forests of Germany, where a sapling is put in when a big tree is taken out, to conserve the timber supply.
Three Times and Out: A Canadian Boy's Experience in Germany Nellie L. McClung 1918
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The sapling was the scion of a god, invulnerable, unapproachable, and so long-lived as to be, in practical terms, immortal.
The Silver Spike Cook, Glen 1989
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_Mammoth Red Clover_, also called sapling clover and pea-vine clover, closely resembles the red clover, but is ranker in growth and matures two or three weeks later.
The First Book of Farming Charles Landon Goodrich
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Sown at different periods, with centuries between their growth, the latter exhibit every variety of age and form, from the decaying patriarchs of the forest, which have survived the blasts of some hundred years, to the infant sapling, which is only beginning to shoot under the shelter of a projecting rock or stem.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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The bird upon the sapling was a robin, the tiny round body perched upon his delicate legs, plump and bright plumaged for mating.
The Shuttle 1907
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It may be known as sapling clover, and is accounted a perennial, though it is little more so than the red.
Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement Alva Agee 1900
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Jim Hart, a man of singular height and thinness, whom Sol disrespectfully called the "Saplin '" -- that is, the sapling, a slim young tree -- was doing the cooking.
The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky 1890
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The bird upon the sapling was a robin, the tiny round body perched upon his delicate legs, plump and bright plumaged for mating.
The Shuttle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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