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Scion

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scion
Botany a shoot or twig of a plant used to form a graft
scion [′sīยทən]
(botany)
A section of a plant, usually a stem or bud, which is attached to the stock in grafting.
scion
A cutting from a woody plant that is joined onto rootstock of another plant in grafting and budding.
Scion 

a cutting or a corymb having a bud from a cultivated variety that is grafted to another plant (the stock). The growth that results from the joining of scion and stock is called a graft. In fruit growing, the cuttings are obtained from a special section of fruit trees at a nursery or in a commercial orchard. The quality of a scion is determined by the condition of the tree from which it is obtained. The tree should be healthy, productive, and resistant to unfavorable conditions. The quality of the scion is also affected by storage conditions.
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A strange thing has happened to a scion of our defunct aristocracy.
The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.
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Cedric, to whom the name of Alfred was as that of a deity, had treated the sole remaining scion of that great monarch with a degree of observance, such as, perhaps, was in those days scarce paid to an acknowledged princess.
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