Noun
A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.
A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting.
Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
Source: Webster's dictionarya scion of royal stock Source: Internet
Estêvão da Gama married Isabel Sodré, a daughter of João Sodré (also known as João de Resende), scion of a well-connected family of English origin. Source: Internet
And this year's egg scramble gets particularly messy when the reclusive wife of a local scion is fatally perforated my a fiend dressed in a bunny suit. Source: Internet
Birley, pg. 113 In the East, Roman suzerainty over Armenia was retained by the 140 choosing of Arsacid scion Sohaemus as client king. Source: Internet
A number of Russian sources give the name of a Khazar khagan from this period as Irbis and describe him as a scion of the Göktürk royal house, the Ashina. Source: Internet
Mistry, the scion of the wealthy Shapoorji Pallonji family, had in December 2012 succeeded Ratan Tata as the executive chairman of Tata Sons, a post that also made him the head of all Tata group-listed firms such as Tata Power and Tata Motors. Source: Internet