1 A twig, or portion of a twig, of one plant grafted onto the stock of another 2 Any unrooted portion of a plant used for grafting or budding onto a rootstock Shoots of woody plants from which scions are cut are called 'scionwood' or, if appropriate, 'budwood'
A scion of a rich or famous family is one of its younger or more recent members. Nabokov was the scion of an aristocratic family. a young member of a famous or important family scion of (cion)
A woody stem or small section of a tree or shrub used to propagate a new plant by grafting on a rootstock The scion holds the characteristics of the new plant; - the root stock enables it to grow quickly