Dictionary Definition
scion n : a descendent or heir; "a scion of royal
stock"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Alternative spellings
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪən
Noun
- a descendant, a son or daughter
- A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting
- The heir to a throne
- Also used as a synonym to "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?
Translations
descendant
detached shoot
heir to a throne
Extensive Definition
Scion may refer to:
- A descendant, a son or daughter
- Grafting, where the scion is a detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant
- Scion (automobile), a brand of vehicles produced by Toyota Motor Vehicles in the US
- Atlantean Scion, a fictional device of untold power invented for the video game Tomb Raider
- Scion (comics), a comic book published 2000-2004 by CrossGen Comics
- Scion (role-playing game), a role-playing game released by White Wolf, Inc
- Scions of Eden, a novel by American author Martin Wright
- An alien race in the video game Battlezone 2
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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