As a noun scion
is a descendant, especially a first-generation descendant.
As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.
As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.
scion
English
Alternative forms
*
**
*** sioun
*** syoun
**
*** syon
**
*** sien
*** sion
*** syen
*** syon
**
*** seyon
*** sien
*** syen
*
**
*** cyun
**
*** cion
**
*** cien
*** cion
*** cyen
*** cyon
**
*** cion (now chiefly in botanical senses)
*
**
*** science
*** scyence
*** siens
*** sient
**
*** cions
*** cyence
*** cyens
*** cyons
*** sciance
*** science
*** scient
*** sience
*** siens
*** sient
*
**
*** scyon
**
*** scion
*** scioun
**
*** scion
**
*** scien
*** scion
*** scyen
**
*** scion
*** scyon
**
*** scion (standard spelling)
Noun
(
en noun)
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
* '>citation
* 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?
References
Anagrams
*
*
*
*
----
x
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image=
(
wikipedia X)
Etymology 1
Letter
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Symbol
(
mul-symbol)
A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
strike
Etymology 2
Possibly from skull and crossbones
Derived terms
* XXX
See also
{{Letter
, page=X
, NATO=X-ray
, Morse=–··–
, Character=X
, Braille=?
}}
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
----
