cyon

English

Noun

cyon (plural cyons)

1. Obsolete spelling of scion.
   • 1613, G[ervase] M[arkham], “Of the Setting or Planting of the Cyons or Branches of Most Sorts of Fruit-trees”, in The English Husbandman, […], revised edition, London: […] [Augustine Matthews and John Norton] for Henry Taunton, […], published 1635, →OCLC, 2nd part (Containing the Art of Planting, Grafting, and Gardening, […]), page 132:

     [If] you finde a certaine miſlike or conſumption in the plant, you ſhall immediatly vvith a ſharp knife cut the plant off ſlope-vviſe upvvard, about three fingers from the ground, and ſo let it reſt till the next ſpring, at vvhich time you ſhall behold nevv cyons iſſue from the roote, […]

   • 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:

     Upon the body and ſtock of inheritance we have taken care not to inoculate any cyon alien to the nature of the original plant.

Anagrams

• CONY, CoNY, cony, coyn, cyno-

Old French

Noun

cyon oblique singular, m (oblique plural cyons, nominative singular cyons, nominative plural cyon)

1. scion (detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant)
2. (figuratively) descendant

Descendants

• English: scion
• French: scion