1
: a young tree
specifically
: one not over four inches (about 10 centimeters) in diameter at breast height
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If things were business as usual, Susannah Burley would be gearing up to spend another weekend planting tree saplings.
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Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
The national beekeepers association also distributes pollinator-friendly tree saplings and hosts a planting day each March.
—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2025
On June 4, the four-person crew of NASA's Artemis 2 mission attended a dedication ceremony for an American sweetgum sapling grown from one of the Artemis 1 moon tree seeds.
—Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
The hotel is situated halfway up the historic Via Veneto in the shade of its giant sycamore trees—they’re practically saplings in La Dolce Vita, the Fellini movie that put this Roman street on the global map in the 1960s.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2024
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Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 8 Feb. 2025
The national beekeepers association also distributes pollinator-friendly tree saplings and hosts a planting day each March.
—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jan. 2025
On June 4, the four-person crew of NASA's Artemis 2 mission attended a dedication ceremony for an American sweetgum sapling grown from one of the Artemis 1 moon tree seeds.
—Space.com Staff, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2025
The hotel is situated halfway up the historic Via Veneto in the shade of its giant sycamore trees—they’re practically saplings in La Dolce Vita, the Fellini movie that put this Roman street on the global map in the 1960s.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Sapling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sapling. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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sapling
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sap·ling
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: a young tree
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