scion

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim The heir to a throne.
3. isim A guardian.
4. isim A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.

   “[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, […]”