stripling

noun2

1. •
   [before a noun] (humorous, old-fashioned) A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. .

   • And the king said, Enquire thou whose sonne the stripling is. — 1611
2. •
   A seedling with most of the leaves stripped off.

   • For there upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediaeval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs. — 1879