Scion

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  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.
  • noun. A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.
  • noun. Hence, a descendant; an heir.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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.
  • noun. The heir to a throne.
  • noun. A guardian.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a descendent or heir
  • Word Usage
    "The smugness is reinforced not just by his history as the entitled scion of one of America's aristocratic dynasties but also by his conviction that his every action is blessed from on high."
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    Brian  Bryan  Bryon  Dion  Ghanaian  
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    appendage  arm  bine  bough  branch