Scion synonyms

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descendant
Descendant is defined as an offspring of a particular person.
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heir
Anyone who receives property of a deceased person either by will or by law
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cause (antonym)
A basis for an action or response; a reason:
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progeny
A person's descendants considered as a group.
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child (related)
(Computing) A data item, process or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another data item, process or object.
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offspring (related)
An animal or plant's progeny, an animal or plant's young.
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branch
A secondary woody stem or limb growing from the trunk or main stem of a tree or shrub or from another secondary limb.
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bud
Any undeveloped or immature person or thing
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graft
(Uncountable) Corruption in official life.
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offshoot
(Botany) A lateral shoot from the main stem of a plant.
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seed
(Uncountable) Semen.
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shoot
(Professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
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son
The definition of a son is the male offspring of parents.
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sprout
Something like or suggestive of a sprout, as an offshoot or young person
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successor
A person or thing that succeeds, or follows, another; esp., one who succeeds to an office, title, etc.
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twig
A small, slender branch or shoot of a tree or shrub
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ancestor (antonym)
The definition of an ancestor is a person or creature from whom one is descended or who lived in the past, or a person who came before.
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predecessor (antonym)
The definition of a predecessor is someone who came before another person.
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root (antonym)
A primary source; an origin; radix.
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source (antonym)
A person or thing from which something comes into being or is derived or obtained:
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kin (related)
A primitive Chinese musical instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
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descendent (related)
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inheritor (related)
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Find another word for scion. In this page you can discover 23 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for scion, like: descendant, heir, cause, progeny, child, offspring, branch, bud, graft, offshoot and seed.
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Scion Sentence Examples

  • Another scion claiming the same high descent lingers to the present day near the ruins of Vijayanagar, and is known as the raja of Anagundi, a feudatory of the nizam of Hyderabad.

  • The operation must be so performed that the growing tissues, or cambium-layer of the scion, may fit accurately to the corresponding layer of the stock.

  • A scion of the rival Cantacuzenian family was elected by the pasha's orders, and he, after exhausting the principality for the benefit of the Divan, was in turn deposed and executed in 1716.

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