Definition of "sapling" [sap•ling]

• A young tree. (noun)
• A youth. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "If you have some money to spend, you could follow country road's advice and by a sapling from a nursery, which could cut your wait time by a few years."
• "This was one of the planted forests of Germany, where a sapling is put in when a big tree is taken out, to conserve the timber supply."
• "The sapling was the scion of a god, invulnerable, unapproachable, and so long-lived as to be, in practical terms, immortal."