Preposition: of

• family: A scion of a family made prosperous by the British Empire.

• dynasty: His probable purpose, tho unexpressed, was to contrast them with the later degenerate scions of the Hasmonaean dynasty.

• nobility: Paulo Neroni had had not the faintest title to call himself a scion of even Italian nobility.

• tree: In the 1820's scions of the tree were sent to Massachusetts in the USA, Canada and Europe, and later to Australia.

• establishment: It was ironic that by the end of his life he was regarded as a scion of the English establishment.

Converse of object

• call: In February Willie saved pencil thick shoots, called scions, from several different varieties of his own apples.

• degenerate: On his father's side, his ancestors had all been big men, and he was no degenerate scion.

Adjective modifier

• last: The tragic Mary Queen of Scots was the last scion of their line.

• young: They would surely make it their business to see that the young scion of Longleat got well launched in life.