Associations to the word «Scion»

Wiktionary

SCION, noun. A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant.
SCION, noun. A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.
SCION, noun. The heir to a throne.
SCION, noun. A guardian.

Dictionary definition

SCION, noun. A descendent or heir; "a scion of royal stock".

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky