Scion

Noun

 * 1) A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant.
 * 2) A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting.
 * 3) The heir to a throne.
 * 4) guardian

Quotations

 * 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?

Adjectives for Scion
dormant;  remaining;  fiery;  illustrious; gentler; decadent; dissipated; royal.

Thesaurus
appendage, arm, bine, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness, burgeon, child, daughter, deadwood, descendant, flagellum, fork, foster child, frond, grandchild, granddaughter, grandson, hand, heiress, imp, joint, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, member, offshoot, offspring, organ, pinion, ramage, ramification, runner, sapling, sarment, seedling, set, shoot, slip, son, son and heir, sonny, spear, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, spur, stepchild, stepdaughter, stepson, stolon, sucker, switch, tail, tendril, thallus, twig, wing

Alternative forms

 * -forms (-initial, -terminal):
 * sioun
 * syoun
 * syon
 * sien
 * sion
 * syen
 * syon
 * seyon
 * sien
 * syen
 * seyon
 * sien
 * syen
 * syen


 * -forms (-initial, -terminal):
 * cyun
 * cion
 * cien
 * cion
 * cyen
 * cyon
 * cion
 * cyen
 * cyon
 * cion
 * cion


 * -forms (- or -terminal):
 * science
 * scyence
 * siens
 * sient
 * cions
 * cyence
 * cyens
 * cyons
 * sciance
 * science
 * scient
 * sience
 * siens
 * sient
 * siens
 * sient


 * -forms (-initial, -terminal):
 * scyon
 * scion
 * scioun
 * scion
 * scien
 * scion
 * scyen
 * scion
 * scyon
 * scion
 * scyen
 * scion
 * scyon
 * scion
 * scion
 * scion

Etymology
From cion:, ciun:, cyon:, sion:; cognate with French scion: and Picard chion:.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: потомък
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: απόγονος
 * Japanese: 子孫 (しそん, shison)


 * Norwegian:
 * Romanian: moștenitor
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: efterkomma
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: scheut
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Hungarian: oltvány
 * Japanese: 接ぎ穂 (tsugiho)


 * Latin:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ympkvist
 * Welsh:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, troonopvolger
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Japanese: 御曹司 (onzoushi)
 * Norwegian:


 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ättling
 * Turkish: veliaht
 * Welsh:

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