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# sapling

noun (a sapling, saplings)

«sapling» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A young tree with a thin trunk. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#m1)
2. (literary) A young person, especially a slim young man. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#m2)

### In the lessons

In science and nature lessons saplings grow from seeds and become trees; schools plant saplings on tree-planting days. In stories a sapling stands for youth and new life. Phrases: «plant a sapling», «oak sapling».

### Examples

- We planted an oak sapling in the school garden. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#x1)
- The sapling was tied to a stick so the wind would not bend it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#x2)
- Deer eat the bark of young saplings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#x3)
- In ten years the sapling will be a big tree. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#x4)
- The storm snapped the little sapling. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#x5)
- Each class planted a sapling for Arbor Day. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#x6)
- ‘When first I came hither,’ said he, ‘the plain was bare save for one oak sapling, which grew up to be an oak with a hundred branches. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/#x7)

### Note

Countable: saplings. Smaller than a tree, bigger than a seedling. In maths problems: if 30 saplings are planted in 5 equal rows, there are 6 in each row.

## In Jewish tradition

Isaiah says God's servant grows like a weak young plant from dry ground, with no looks to attract anyone.

**Interpretation.** Jewish tradition often reads this servant as the people Israel, humble and despised, and some medieval writers took it as the Messiah.

### Examples

- For he shot up right forth as a sapling, and as a root out of a dry ground; he had no form nor comeliness, that we should look upon him, nor beauty that we should delight in him. (Prophets ISA.53.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sapling/#x1)

### Note

Countable: saplings. Smaller than a tree, bigger than a seedling. In maths problems: if 30 saplings are planted in 5 equal rows, there are 6 in each row.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sapling» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sapling/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sapling» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sapling.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «sapling» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sapling/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sapling» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/sapling.html) on Mova free.