sapling \sap"ling\, n. A young tree. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "sapling": adolescent, baby, conifer, evergreen, fledgling, fruit tree, hardwood tree, hopeful, infant, junior, juvenal, juvenile, minor, pollard, pubescent, scion, seedling, set, shade tree, shoot, slip, softwood tree, sprig, sprout, stripling, sucker, teenager, teener, teenybopper, timber, timber tree, tree, twig, young hopeful, young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth