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Word of the Day for Tuesday, September 23, 2008 scion \SY-uhn\, noun: 1. A detached shoot or twig of a plant used for grafting. 2. Hence, a descendant; an heir. Convinced he was the scion of Louis Alexandre Lebris de Kerouac, a noble Breton, he was off to do genealogical research in the Paris libraries and then to locate his ancestor's hometown in Brittany. -- Ellis Amburn, Subterranean Kerouac Sassoon, scion of a famously wealthy Jewish banking family, had never needed to earn his living. -- Philip Hoare, Oscar Wilde's Last Stand Gates is the scion of an old, affluent Seattle family; Jobs is the adopted son of a machinist in Northern California. -- "Steve Jobs, Hesitant Co-Founder, Makes New Commitment to Apple", New York Times, August 7, 1997 Scion derives from Old French cion, of Germanic origin. Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for scion Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help
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