sapling
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That syrupy-sweet and shockingly crisp fruit came from an unremarkable sapling that Bedford, then a graduate student, had rescued from the discard pile of a University of Minnesota breeding program.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025
The charity invited organisations or individuals to bid for a sapling and had nearly 500 applications.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024
It takes an avocado sapling three years to begin producing fruit and about five years to provide a full yield.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2024
Currently, we put trees last, and if it gets in the way of cabling or pipes, we remove the tree or replace it with a sapling.
From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024
Then the witch took her own knife and split an alder sapling along its whole length.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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