c. 1300, "a shoot or twig," especially one for grafting, from Old French sion, cion "descendant; shoot, twig; offspring" (12c., Modern French scion, Picard chion), of uncertain origin. OED rejects derivation from Old French scier "to saw." Perhaps a diminutive from Frankish *kid-, from Proto-Germanic *kidon-, from PIE *geie- "to sprout, split, open" (see chink (n.1)). Figurative use is attested from 1580s in English; meaning "an heir, a descendant" is from 1814, from the "family tree" image.
实用例句
1. Nabokov was the scion of an aristocratic family.
纳博科夫是一个贵族家庭的阔少。来自辞典例句
2. Grafting of root stocks with named scion cultivars was well understood by the Romans.
用已经命名的栽培品种稼接在砧木上这种技术已经为罗马人所熟知.来自辞典例句
3. A place is cut in the root stock to accept the scion.
砧木上切开一个小口,来接受接穗.来自互联网
4. The scion is then securely placed into a cut on the rootstock.
然后将接穗插入砧木切口紧密贴合.来自互联网
5. This Scion belongs to Natla ; Face it, you got no business here.
