Scion Definition

sīən
scions
noun
A descendant; offspring.
Webster's New World
A shoot or bud of a plant, esp. one for planting or grafting.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Scion

Noun

Singular:
scion
Plural:
scions

Origin of Scion

  • Middle English from Old French cion possibly of Germanic origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Scion Sentence Examples

  • The operation must be so performed that the growing tissues, or cambium-layer of the scion, may fit accurately to the corresponding layer of the stock.

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

  • Another scion claiming the same high descent lingers to the present day near the ruins of Vijayanagar, and is known as the raja of Anagundi, a feudatory of the nizam of Hyderabad.

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

  • Still, as in the laburnum just mentioned, in the variegated jasmine and in Abutilon Darwinii, in the copper beech and in the horse-chestnut, the influence of a variegated scion has occasionally shown itself in the production from the stock of variegated shoots.

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SSCSCI

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NONION

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