Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Scion

Scion , noun

[Old French cion, French scion, probably from scier to saw, from Latin secare to cut. Compare Section.]

1.
(a) (Botany) A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.
(b)
(Botany) A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting. [Formerly written also cion, and cyon.]
2.
Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.