Meaning

2 senses
  1. A young tree, larger than a seedling.

    junger Baum, Setzling, Steckling

    де́ревцеdérevce, са́женецsáženec

    young tree

  2. (figuratively)A youngster, especially a male nearing maturity.

Examples

7 sentences
  1. We went there to plant saplings.

    ruМы пошли туда, чтобы посадить саженцы. — odexed

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  2. The small sapling became a big tree.

  3. We planted an acer sapling in our garden last spring.

  4. It's a very beautiful sapling.

    deDas ist ein sehr schönes Bäumchen. — Sirio60

  5. The sapling became a tree.

    ruСаженец стал деревом. — kotik

    deDer Setzling ward zum Baume. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
youth:
young tree:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
youth:
young tree:

Origin

From Middle English saplyng, seplyng, sapling, equivalent to sap + -ling.

From Middle English saplyng, seplyng, sapling, equivalent to sap + -ling.

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Forms

plural: saplings
Singularsapling
Pluralsaplings

regular

Word family

1 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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