Offshoot is a related term of scion.
As nouns the difference between offshoot and scion
is that offshoot is that which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc; as, the offshoots of a tree while scion is a descendant, especially a first-generation descendant.
offshoot
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That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.
Synonyms
* spinoff
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scion
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Noun
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A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant.
A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.
The heir to a throne.
A guardian.
Quotations
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* 1966 , , An Early Passover , Clifton Pub. Co., paperback edition, page 24
*: It was said to him that those people were the scions of Zion.
* 1986 , , 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?
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