It's a very beautiful sapling.
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Sapling
//ˈsæplɪŋ//
Synonyms for "sapling" (46 found)
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Related words (23)
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69 translations across 35 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὄρπηξ noun (young tree)
Arabic
1 entries- شَتْلَة noun (young tree)
Armenian
2 entries- տնկի noun (young tree)
- տունկ noun (young tree)
Assamese
1 entries- পুলি noun (young tree)
Bulgarian
2 entries- младеж noun (youth)
- фида́нка noun (young tree)
Burmese
1 entries- ပင်ထောင် noun (young tree)
Catalan
1 entries- plançó noun (young tree)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 幼苗 noun (young tree)
- 樹苗 /树苗 noun (young tree)
Dutch
2 entries- jong boompje noun (young tree)
- jongeling noun (youth)
Esperanto
1 entries- arbido noun (young tree)
Finnish
2 entries- ihmistaimi noun (youth)
- taimi noun (young tree)
French
1 entries- arbrisseau noun (young tree)
Galician
2 entries- mozo noun (youth)
- rebolo noun (young tree)
German
4 entries- Fechser noun (young tree)
- Grünschnabel noun (youth)
- Jungbaum noun (young tree)
- Jüngling noun (youth)
Greek
1 entries- δενδρύλλιο noun (young tree)
Icelandic
1 entries- græðlingur noun (young tree)
Indonesian
1 entries- bibit noun (young tree)
Ingrian
2 entries- hutja noun (young tree)
- taimi noun (young tree)
Irish
2 entries- buinneán noun (young tree)
- crann óg noun (young tree)
Italian
2 entries- alberello noun (young tree)
- virgulto noun (young tree)
Japanese
2 entries- 若木 noun (young tree)
- 若者 noun (youth)
Latin
1 entries- arbuscula noun (young tree)
Macedonian
1 entries- фиданка noun (young tree)
Middle English
1 entries- saplyng noun (young tree)
Māori
4 entries- kāhō noun (young tree)
- kōhuri noun (young tree)
- kōhurihuri noun (young tree)
- māhuri noun (young tree)
Persian
1 entries- نهال noun (young tree)
Romanian
1 entries- puiet noun (young tree)
Russian
4 entries- де́ревце noun (young tree)
- са́женец noun (young tree)
- ю́ноша noun (youth)
- юне́ц noun (youth)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- ògan noun (young tree)
- ògan noun (youth)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- drvce noun (young tree)
- sadnica noun (young tree)
Spanish
4 entries- arbolito noun (young tree)
- joven noun (youth)
- jovencito noun (youth)
- muchacho noun (youth)
Turkish
1 entries- fidan noun (young tree)
Turkmen
1 entries- nahal noun (young tree)
Unami
1 entries- hìtùkwtët noun (young tree)
Vietnamese
1 entries- cây nhỏ noun (young tree)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
Thither I drew, and strove with eager hold / a green-leaved sapling from the soil to tear, / to shade with boughs the altars, when behold / a portent, weird to see and wondrous to unfold!
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Once more / a limber sapling from the soil I tore; / once more, persisting, I resolved in mind / with inmost search the causes to explore / and probe the mystery that lurked behind; / dark drops of blood once more come trickling from the rind.
Source: tatoeba (6932048)
A shoot grows from a seed. A shoot transforms to a sapling, a sapling to a tree. The root sustains the tree.
Source: tatoeba (7306024)
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