saplings
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One of the saplings grown from the felled Sycamore Gap tree has been stolen from a castle's grounds.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
From Sycamore Gap saplings to 'trees of hope'
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
During the Bounty’s infamous mutiny, Tahitian breadfruit saplings filled its hold.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
We quickly walked into a bed of knee-high sequoias saplings so thick I couldn’t estimate their number.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026
Around a stump, over a mound of leaves, past a cedar tree—there were the saplings, and there lay the rat, still on his side.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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