Definition of sapling in English:

sapling

noun ˈsaplɪŋˈsæplɪŋ

1A young tree, especially one with a slender trunk.
（尤指树干细长的）幼树
Example sentencesExamples
- The forestry people have very generously agreed to supply every home in Clonmore parish with oak saplings and holly trees for Christmas.
- More mature trees will drop seeds and create younger saplings, and the villagers in-game will harvest older trees rather than younger ones.
- Cover crops such as redtop grass keep competing natural vegetation in check and allow oak saplings to flourish.
- Caging tree saplings and young shrubs is a good option where you have just a few to protect.
- The nursery has expanded to include a tree nursery where saplings are grown on to maturity for sale.
- Rarely seen boulders jutted out from the brown surface of the Danube and grasses and tree saplings sprouted up in the dried mud at the foot of the city's stone river banks.
- Walk through one and you will see little in the half-light apart from the trunks of trees and tangled saplings.
- Now, as a mature garden, the trees, mere saplings when planted, are fully grown.
- We cannot go up into the upper atmosphere and pump ozone back in the ozone holes, neither can we plant a sapling for every tree cut in the past ten years.
- According to the organisers the various oak, ash, hazel and other indigenous tree saplings will take about 10 years to begin looking like a wood and a lot longer to mature.
- Early one misty morning, with clouds hanging across the valley, we load cedar saplings onto the tractor.
- Buck rubs were a common sight on fruit trees and saplings in the fencerows and woodlots.
- The culprits skidded round the green in a Peugeot car before crashing into a tree sapling and running off.
- Cape ivy harms willows by overgrowing saplings and blocking out light the trees need to survive.
- With such a short growing season, 200-year-old trees look like saplings.
- With young saplings obvious in many hedgerows throughout the country, this message has had some success.
- The plantation of tree saplings for any occasion has now become ceremony for not only politicians but also officials and others.
- Watch for larger saplings and young trees to noticeably increase in girth and height, but you'll have to look closely to see the nearly imperceptible addition of one or two annual rings on bigger trees.
- To stabilize new saplings and tree roses from bending in the wind, you often need to tie them to a stake.
- All ages of trees, from saplings to the old-timers, create a multistoried canopy allowing light to enter the gaps and stimulate new growth.
1. 1.1literary A young and slender or inexperienced person.
  〈诗/文〉身材修长的年轻人；没有经验的人，初出茅庐的人
  what god or mortal reared up so fair a sapling?
  Example sentencesExamples
  He is a lawyer who has served ShrubCo since he was a sapling in Texas.
2A greyhound in its first year.
一岁内的灵𤟥
Example sentencesExamples
- When I explained what I had in mind, Larry, amazingly, said that he would be tickled to death to give us a sapling, and it would be the best sapling in his breeding program.
- Patrons in attendance will also have the chance to bid for a choicely bred greyhound sapling by top sire - Hilltown.

Origin

Middle English: from the noun sap¹ + -ling.

Definition of sapling in US English:

sapling

nounˈsapliNGˈsæplɪŋ

1A young tree, especially one with a slender trunk.
（尤指树干细长的）幼树
Example sentencesExamples
- Walk through one and you will see little in the half-light apart from the trunks of trees and tangled saplings.
- The forestry people have very generously agreed to supply every home in Clonmore parish with oak saplings and holly trees for Christmas.
- All ages of trees, from saplings to the old-timers, create a multistoried canopy allowing light to enter the gaps and stimulate new growth.
- Early one misty morning, with clouds hanging across the valley, we load cedar saplings onto the tractor.
- To stabilize new saplings and tree roses from bending in the wind, you often need to tie them to a stake.
- Now, as a mature garden, the trees, mere saplings when planted, are fully grown.
- According to the organisers the various oak, ash, hazel and other indigenous tree saplings will take about 10 years to begin looking like a wood and a lot longer to mature.
- Watch for larger saplings and young trees to noticeably increase in girth and height, but you'll have to look closely to see the nearly imperceptible addition of one or two annual rings on bigger trees.
- With young saplings obvious in many hedgerows throughout the country, this message has had some success.
- Cover crops such as redtop grass keep competing natural vegetation in check and allow oak saplings to flourish.
- More mature trees will drop seeds and create younger saplings, and the villagers in-game will harvest older trees rather than younger ones.
- The nursery has expanded to include a tree nursery where saplings are grown on to maturity for sale.
- Rarely seen boulders jutted out from the brown surface of the Danube and grasses and tree saplings sprouted up in the dried mud at the foot of the city's stone river banks.
- Buck rubs were a common sight on fruit trees and saplings in the fencerows and woodlots.
- Cape ivy harms willows by overgrowing saplings and blocking out light the trees need to survive.
- The culprits skidded round the green in a Peugeot car before crashing into a tree sapling and running off.
- With such a short growing season, 200-year-old trees look like saplings.
- Caging tree saplings and young shrubs is a good option where you have just a few to protect.
- We cannot go up into the upper atmosphere and pump ozone back in the ozone holes, neither can we plant a sapling for every tree cut in the past ten years.
- The plantation of tree saplings for any occasion has now become ceremony for not only politicians but also officials and others.
1. 1.1literary A young and slender or inexperienced person.
  〈诗/文〉身材修长的年轻人；没有经验的人，初出茅庐的人
  Example sentencesExamples
  He is a lawyer who has served ShrubCo since he was a sapling in Texas.

Origin

Middle English: from the noun sap + -ling.

词汇	sapling
释义	Definition of sapling in English: sapling noun ˈsaplɪŋˈsæplɪŋ 1A young tree, especially one with a slender trunk. （尤指树干细长的）幼树 Example sentencesExamples The forestry people have very generously agreed to supply every home in Clonmore parish with oak saplings and holly trees for Christmas. More mature trees will drop seeds and create younger saplings, and the villagers in-game will harvest older trees rather than younger ones. Cover crops such as redtop grass keep competing natural vegetation in check and allow oak saplings to flourish. Caging tree saplings and young shrubs is a good option where you have just a few to protect. The nursery has expanded to include a tree nursery where saplings are grown on to maturity for sale. Rarely seen boulders jutted out from the brown surface of the Danube and grasses and tree saplings sprouted up in the dried mud at the foot of the city's stone river banks. Walk through one and you will see little in the half-light apart from the trunks of trees and tangled saplings. Now, as a mature garden, the trees, mere saplings when planted, are fully grown. We cannot go up into the upper atmosphere and pump ozone back in the ozone holes, neither can we plant a sapling for every tree cut in the past ten years. According to the organisers the various oak, ash, hazel and other indigenous tree saplings will take about 10 years to begin looking like a wood and a lot longer to mature. Early one misty morning, with clouds hanging across the valley, we load cedar saplings onto the tractor. Buck rubs were a common sight on fruit trees and saplings in the fencerows and woodlots. The culprits skidded round the green in a Peugeot car before crashing into a tree sapling and running off. Cape ivy harms willows by overgrowing saplings and blocking out light the trees need to survive. With such a short growing season, 200-year-old trees look like saplings. With young saplings obvious in many hedgerows throughout the country, this message has had some success. The plantation of tree saplings for any occasion has now become ceremony for not only politicians but also officials and others. Watch for larger saplings and young trees to noticeably increase in girth and height, but you'll have to look closely to see the nearly imperceptible addition of one or two annual rings on bigger trees. To stabilize new saplings and tree roses from bending in the wind, you often need to tie them to a stake. All ages of trees, from saplings to the old-timers, create a multistoried canopy allowing light to enter the gaps and stimulate new growth. 1.1literary A young and slender or inexperienced person. 〈诗/文〉身材修长的年轻人；没有经验的人，初出茅庐的人 what god or mortal reared up so fair a sapling? Example sentencesExamples He is a lawyer who has served ShrubCo since he was a sapling in Texas. 2A greyhound in its first year. 一岁内的灵𤟥 Example sentencesExamples When I explained what I had in mind, Larry, amazingly, said that he would be tickled to death to give us a sapling, and it would be the best sapling in his breeding program. Patrons in attendance will also have the chance to bid for a choicely bred greyhound sapling by top sire - Hilltown. Origin Middle English: from the noun sap¹ + -ling. Definition of sapling in US English: sapling nounˈsapliNGˈsæplɪŋ 1A young tree, especially one with a slender trunk. （尤指树干细长的）幼树 Example sentencesExamples Walk through one and you will see little in the half-light apart from the trunks of trees and tangled saplings. The forestry people have very generously agreed to supply every home in Clonmore parish with oak saplings and holly trees for Christmas. All ages of trees, from saplings to the old-timers, create a multistoried canopy allowing light to enter the gaps and stimulate new growth. Early one misty morning, with clouds hanging across the valley, we load cedar saplings onto the tractor. To stabilize new saplings and tree roses from bending in the wind, you often need to tie them to a stake. Now, as a mature garden, the trees, mere saplings when planted, are fully grown. According to the organisers the various oak, ash, hazel and other indigenous tree saplings will take about 10 years to begin looking like a wood and a lot longer to mature. Watch for larger saplings and young trees to noticeably increase in girth and height, but you'll have to look closely to see the nearly imperceptible addition of one or two annual rings on bigger trees. With young saplings obvious in many hedgerows throughout the country, this message has had some success. Cover crops such as redtop grass keep competing natural vegetation in check and allow oak saplings to flourish. More mature trees will drop seeds and create younger saplings, and the villagers in-game will harvest older trees rather than younger ones. The nursery has expanded to include a tree nursery where saplings are grown on to maturity for sale. Rarely seen boulders jutted out from the brown surface of the Danube and grasses and tree saplings sprouted up in the dried mud at the foot of the city's stone river banks. Buck rubs were a common sight on fruit trees and saplings in the fencerows and woodlots. Cape ivy harms willows by overgrowing saplings and blocking out light the trees need to survive. The culprits skidded round the green in a Peugeot car before crashing into a tree sapling and running off. With such a short growing season, 200-year-old trees look like saplings. Caging tree saplings and young shrubs is a good option where you have just a few to protect. We cannot go up into the upper atmosphere and pump ozone back in the ozone holes, neither can we plant a sapling for every tree cut in the past ten years. The plantation of tree saplings for any occasion has now become ceremony for not only politicians but also officials and others. 1.1literary A young and slender or inexperienced person. 〈诗/文〉身材修长的年轻人；没有经验的人，初出茅庐的人 Example sentencesExamples He is a lawyer who has served ShrubCo since he was a sapling in Texas. Origin Middle English: from the noun sap + -ling.
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