c. 1300, "a shoot or twig," especially one for grafting, from Old French sion, cion "descendant; shoot, twig; offspring" (12c., Modern French scion, Picard chion), of uncertain origin. OED rejects derivation from Old French scier "to saw." Perhaps a diminutive from Frankish *kid-, from Proto-Germanic *kidon-, from PIE *geie- "to sprout, split, open" (see chink (n.1)). Figurative use is attested from 1580s in English; meaning "an heir, a descendant" is from 1814, from the "family tree" image.
雙語例句
1. Nabokov was the scion of an aristocratic family.
納博科夫是一個貴族家庭的闊少。
來自辭典例句
2. Grafting of root stocks with named scion cultivars was well understood by the Romans.
用已經命名的栽培品種稼接在砧木上這種技術已經為羅馬人所熟知.
來自辭典例句
3. A place is cut in the root stock to accept the scion.
砧木上切開一個小口,來接受接穗.
來自互聯網
4. The scion is then securely placed into a cut on the rootstock.
然后將接穗插入砧木切口緊密貼合.
來自互聯網
5. This Scion belongs to Natla ; Face it, you got no business here.