树苗 meaning in English
sapling
◇树苗圃 tree nursery
Examples
- Ninety-five percent of the new seedlings have survived .
新栽的树苗95%都已成活。 - The old apple trees must be grubbed up and young ones planted .
该把老苹果树挖掉，栽种小树苗。 - They have prehensile lips for feeding on leaves and saplings .
它们都具有能卷握东西的嘴唇，可用于取食树叶和树苗。 - Some were seedlings when troy fell, and already giants when rome was founded .
有些树在希腊神话中特洛伊城陷落的时候还是树苗，到罗马建立时已是庞然大物了。 - Then he stopped selling plants entirely and began to study the laws of heredity-the ways in which living things pass on their own characteristics to later generations .
他完全停止出售树苗，而转向研究遗传规律--即生物如何把自己的特性遗传给下一代。