SCION

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.

2.
n.

A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting. [Formerly written also cion, and cyon.]

3.
n.

Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.


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