scion

noun

A descendant or heir, especially of a wealthy or prominent family.

noun

A detached shoot or bud from a plant that is joined to a rootstock in grafting.

noun

A shoot or twig, especially one cut for the purpose of being grafted upon some other tree, or for planting.

noun

Hence A descendant.

noun

A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.

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A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.

noun

Hence, a descendant; an heir.

noun

A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant.

noun

A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.