Usually means: Young tree, recently started growing.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sapling: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sapling: Merriam-Webster
  3. sapling: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sapling: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sapling: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sapling: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sapling, sapling: Wordnik
  8. sapling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sapling: Wiktionary
  10. sapling: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sapling: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sapling: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sapling: Dictionary.com
  14. sapling: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sapling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sapling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. sapling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sapling: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sapling: Rhymezone
  20. sapling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sapling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. sapling: FreeDictionary.org
  23. sapling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sapling: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sapling: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sapling: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. sapling: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SAPLING: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sapling: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A young tree, bigger than a seedling.
noun:  (figuratively) A youngster, especially a male nearing maturity.

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