scion

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This scion should be a branch of the early growth of the previous year's wood, and should be in the same state of vegetation as the stock.

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  1. noun A descendant or heir.
  2. noun A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting.

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  • Shooting continues for the erstwhile Bluth scion, there's talk of fresh faces for Marvel's first family and a new resident at Wayne Manor, plus "Heroes," "Brave and the Bold" and more. —  Comic Book Resources
  • The cleft graft is a grafting technique that joins a piece of rootstock to a scion, which is a cutting from another plant. —  The Ukiah Daily Journal Forum
  • In the end it is revealed that some "great scion, an elder statesman," of the Forrester clan has trapped all of them. —  Satellite News
  • The Haer scion was his commanding officer. —  Mercenary
  • The Virginian--scion of an old Scotch family, who had been gentry in the colonial times--felt something akin to contempt for his New England neighbour, whose ancestors had been steerage passengers in the famed "Mayflower." —  The Death Shot A Story Retold
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descendant ·  kinsman ·  heir ·  nobleman ·  progeny ·  compatriot ·  prelate ·  baronet ·  successor ·  heiress ·  adventurer ·  benefactor

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scion:   scions
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French cion, possibly of Germanic origin.

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  1. Formerly also sion, scien, cion, cyon; from Middle English sion, sioun, syon, scion, cion, cyun, from Old French sion, cion, French scion, dial, chion, a scion, shoot, sprig, twig; orig. a ‘sawing,’ a ‘cutting,’ from Old French sier, French scier, saw, cut, = Spanish Portuguese segar, cut, mow, reap, = Italian segare, from Latin secare, cut: see secant, section. The proper spelling is sion; the insertion of c in the F. word, and so into the English, is as erroneous as in the English scythe, which is from the same ult. root, and in which the c likewise apparently simulates a connection with L. scindere, cut.
 

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/ˈsaɪən/
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