sapling

Noun

Meaning

A young tree.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

sonny juvenal shaver evergreen cub creeper stripling young plant child slip kid conifer lass minor
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Antonyms

colleen kid grill lass daughter girl
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Phrases with the word

harasser sapling oppressor sapling tormentor sapling aggressor sapling

Anagrams

lapsing spaling palings Plasing

Examples

A gnarled old branch dulls the blade that severs a sapling. Robert Jordan

We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease..... Eckhart Tolle

Grover cradeled his laurel sapling in his hands. "Well... sure is good to be back together again. Arguing. Almost dying. Abject terror. Oh, look It's our floor. Rick Riordan

My totara sapling so suddenly broken off. Maori Proverb

It is not easy to straighten in the oak the crook that grew in the sapling. American Proverb

It is not easy to straighten in the oak the crook that grew in the sapling. Danish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

sapless saplessness saplike saplinghood Sapo sapo-