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# sapling

«sapling» in Mova's school dictionary: **A young tree with a thin trunk** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a sapling, saplings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A young tree with a thin trunk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#m1)

2) (literary) A young person, especially a slim young man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons saplings grow from seeds and become trees; schools plant saplings on tree-planting days. In stories a sapling stands for youth and new life. Phrases: «plant a sapling», «oak sapling».

### examples

- We planted an oak sapling in the school garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#x1)
- The sapling was tied to a stick so the wind would not bend it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#x2)
- Deer eat the bark of young saplings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#x3)
- In ten years the sapling will be a big tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#x4)
- The storm snapped the little sapling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#x5)
- Each class planted a sapling for Arbor Day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#x6)
- ‘When first I came hither,’ said he, ‘the plain was bare save for one oak sapling, which grew up to be an oak with a hundred branches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#x7)

### note

Countable: saplings. Smaller than a tree, bigger than a seedling. In maths problems: if 30 saplings are planted in 5 equal rows, there are 6 in each row.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sapling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.