Definition of scion

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Scion (n.) A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.

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Cyon :: Cyon (n.) See Cion, and Scion..
Slip :: Slip (n.) A twig separated from the main stock; a cutting; a scion; hence, a descendant; as, a slip from a vine..
Imp :: Imp (n.) An offspring; progeny; child; scion.
Inconscionable :: Inconscionable (a.) Unconscionable.
Grafter :: Grafter (n.) The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.
Unconscionable :: Unconscionable (a.) Not guided by, or conformed to, conscience..
Sea Trout :: Sea trout () A California sciaenoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); -- called also white sea bass.
Cleftgraft :: Cleftgraft (v. t.) To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
Conscionableness :: Conscionableness (n.) The quality of being conscionable; reasonableness.
Whipgraft :: Whipgraft (v. t.) To graft by cutting the scion and stock in a certain manner. See Whip grafting, under Grafting..
Scion :: Scion (n.) A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.
Unconscionable :: Unconscionable (a.) Not conscionable; not conforming to reason; unreasonable; exceeding the limits of any reasonable claim or expectation; inordinate; as, an unconscionable person or demand; unconscionable size..
Ingraftment :: Ingraftment (n.) The thing ingrafted; a scion.
Stand :: Stand (v. i.) A young tree, usually reserved when other trees are cut; also, a tree growing or standing upon its own root, in distinction from one produced from a scion set in a stock, either of the same or another kind of tree..
Grafter :: Grafter (n.) One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting..
Conscionably :: Conscionably (adv.) Reasonably; justly.
Cutting :: Cutting (n.) Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut..
Imp :: Imp (n.) A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.
Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; o
Scion :: Scion (n.) Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock..
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