saplings

Example Sentences

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During the Bounty’s infamous mutiny, Tahitian breadfruit saplings filled its hold.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

Over-population of deer means they graze on young plants and tree saplings before they ever have a chance to reach maturity.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

The seedlings and saplings are mostly knee-high to chest-high and mixed with thickets of ceanothus and other post-fire brush growing amid the true giants that stand dead among them.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

The work follows the planting of 450 saplings at the site in March 2025.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026

Glistening in the soft ground around the saplings were hundreds of big fleshy worms.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool