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/ˈsaɪən/ · noun
A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family..
No senate seats in council for the dead; no scion of a time honoured dynasty pants to rule over the inhabitants of a charnel house; the general's hand is cold, and the soldier has his untimely grave dug in his native fields, unhonoured, though in youth.
Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
It was said to him that those people were the scions of Zion.
He could show his parents Eliot, scion of Derek Moulthorp, and then how could they say he was throwing his life away?
[If] you finde a certaine miſlike or conſumption in the plant, you ſhall immediatly vvith a ſharp knife cut the plant off ſlope-vviſe upvvard, about three fingers from the ground, and ſo let it reſt till the next ſpring, at vvhich time you ſhall behold nevv cyons iſſue from the roote, […]
He used to think that the plums in this country weren’t good enough, and so he has reformed them, grafting scion to rootstock.
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Scion means A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family..
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No senate seats in council for the dead; no scion of a time honoured dynasty pants to rule over the inhabitants of a charnel house; the general's hand is cold, and the soldier has his untimely grave dug in his native fields, unhonoured, though in youth.
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