Definition of scion

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Scion (n.) A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.

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Scion :: Scion (n.) A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.
Sect :: Sect (n.) A cutting; a scion.
Insertion :: Insertion (n.) The act of inserting; as, the insertion of scions in stocks; the insertion of words or passages in writings..
Grafter :: Grafter (n.) The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.
Sea Trout :: Sea trout () A California sciaenoid fish (Cynoscion nobilis); -- called also white sea bass.
Sea Bass :: Sea bass () A California food fish (Cynoscion nobile); -- called also white sea bass, and sea salmon..
Insition :: Insition (n.) The insertion of a scion in a stock; ingraftment.
Ingraftment :: Ingraftment (n.) The thing ingrafted; a scion.
Ingraft :: Ingraft (v. t.) To subject to the process of grafting; to furnish with grafts or scions; to graft; as, to ingraft a tree..
Grafter :: Grafter (n.) One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting..
Weakfish :: Weakfish (n.) Any fish of the genus Cynoscion; a squeteague; -- so called from its tender mouth. See Squeteague.
Graft :: Graft (n.) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit..
Scion :: Scion (n.) A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.
Insert :: Insert (v. t.) To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to insert a letter, word, or passage in a composition; to insert an advertisement in a newspaper..
Inarch :: Inarch (v. t.) To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete; -- also called to graft by approach..
Ingraft :: Ingraft (v. t.) To insert, as a scion of one tree, shrub, or plant in another for propagation; as, to ingraft a peach scion on a plum tree; figuratively, to insert or introduce in such a way as to make a part of something..
Cutting :: Cutting (n.) Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut..
Graft :: Graft (v. i.) To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting..
Un- :: Un- (adv.) Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; o
Imp :: Imp (n.) An offspring; progeny; child; scion.
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