scion

Meaning

1. A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.
2. The heir to a throne.
3. A guardian.
4. A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.

Synonyms

descendant

offspring

graft

sprout

heir

offshoot

shoot

slip

progeny

sprig

cion

bud

sapling

child

🧒

tilt

twig

offset

spear

splice

branchlet

scion wood

burgeon

graff

grafting

implant

inheritor

issue

lineage

outgrowth

plant

🌱

posterity

progeniture

rod

root

runner

🏃

seed

seedling

🌱

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsaɪən/

Etymology

From Middle English sion, sioun, syon, scion, cion, from Old French cion, ciun, cyon, sion, from Frankish *kīþō, *kīþ, from Proto-Germanic *kīþô, *kīþą, *kīþaz (“sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *geye- (“to split open, sprout”), same source as Old English ċīþ (“a young shoot; sprout; germ; sprig”), Old Saxon kīth (“sprout; germ”), Old High German kīdi (“offshoot; sprout; germ”). See also French scion and Picard chion. Doublet of chit.