scion
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[edit] Etymology
From Old French cion, ciun, cyon, sion; cognate with French scion and Picard chion.[1]
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scion (plural scions)
- A descendant, a son or daughter.
- A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting.
- The heir to a throne.
- Also used as a synonym to "guardian".
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- 1966, Sholem Aleichem, An Early Passover, Clifton Pub. Co., paperback edition, page 24
- It was said to him that those people were the scions of Zion.
- 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, Penguin, paperback edition, page 72
- He could show his parents Eliot, scion of Derek Moulthorp, and then how could they say he was throwing his life away?
[edit] Translations
descendant
detached shoot
heir to a throne
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