Scion (role-playing game)
WordNet
noun
(1) A descendent or heir
"A scion of royal stock"
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Etymology
From , , , ; cognate with French and Picard .
Noun
- A descendant, a son or daughter.
- A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting.
- The heir to a throne.
- Also used as a synonym to "guardian".
Quotations
- 1966, Sholem Aleichem, An Early Passover, Clifton Pub. Co., paperback edition, page 24
- It was said to him that those people were the scions of Zion.
- 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, Penguin, paperback edition, page 72
- He could show his parents Eliot, scion of Derek Moulthorp, and then how could they say he was throwing his life away?