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SAPLING

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Young tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sapling" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

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 Context examples: 

Chopping down young saplings, he made them cross-bars of a scaffold by lashing them high up to the trunks of standing trees.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She took the rabbit from him, and while the sapling swayed and teetered threateningly above her she calmly gnawed off the rabbit's head.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The she-wolf sat down in the snow, and old One Eye, now more in fear of his mate than of the mysterious sapling, again sprang for the rabbit.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

But at the same time there was a suspicious crackling movement beside him, and his astonished eye saw a young spruce sapling bending down above him to strike him.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And in that moment the sapling reared its slender length upright and the rabbit soared dancing in the air again.

(White Fang, by Jack London)