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scion
[ sahy-uhn ]
noun
- a descendant or heir, especially of a wealthy or powerful family:
She's a familiar face in this Wyoming town, the third-generation scion of a cattle-ranching family.
The two men were scions of the most powerful dynasties in the world.
- Sometimes ci·on. a shoot or twig, especially one cut for grafting or planting; a cutting.
scion
/ ˈsaɪən /
noun
- a descendant, heir, or young member of a family
- a shoot or twig of a plant used to form a graft
scion
/ sī′ən /
- A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting.
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Origin of scion1
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Example Sentences
He was a scion of immense wealth, a civil rights activist, and an art collector and patron.
The party will need to do much, much more than replace one scion with another if it is ever to come back to national prominence.
The rock star scion became one of the loudest voices of her generation; prolific on social media and in the British press.
A DuPont family scion was convicted of sexually assaulting his daughter but received no jail time.
Sharif, 63, was born into money as the scion of a very wealthy family in Lahore.
Such an alliance was not to be tolerated for a moment, in connection with the last scion of his name and race.
Personally, I enjoyed the frank, untrammelled and prodigiously accomplished scion of a vulgar race.
Doctor Bataille, poor man, is the scion of an ordinary ancestry within the narrow limits of flesh and blood.
The compulsory subdivision of estates at the death of the owner enables every scion to live, if not to thrive, on the home stock.
Why, I assumed that your quest of the quack's scion would have trained you down fit for anything.
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