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the saplings
noun
A young tree, but bigger than a seedling.
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The holes for the saplings looked dark and deep.
The saplings will be planted at sites across Britain and encouraged to grow naturally.
Now, all but 1,500 of the plastic tree-guards housing the saplings were empty.
There's a biting wind today, which rattles the saplings like yacht masts in a marina.
The reforestation began in 1977; that's where the saplings come in.
The sites chosen for the saplings are symbolic; they have a clear, positive connection to Stowe.
Stones placed in a ring around the hut braced the saplings.
Another group of men died hiding among the saplings of a small copse to the south of the parade ground.
The thorns do not deter Shimota's greatest enemies: deer which chew the bark, and wild rabbits which devour the saplings.
He exhaled smoke and watched the saplings at the edge of the creek bend in the surge.
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