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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Scion \Sci"on\, noun [OF. cion, F. scion, probably from scier to saw, fr. L. secare to cut. Cf. {Section}.]
1. (Bot.) (a) A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker. (b) A piece of a slender branch or twig cut for grafting. [Formerly written also cion, and cyon.]
2. Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
scion
noun: a descendent or heir; "a scion of royal stock"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "scion": appendage, arm, bine, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness, burgeon, child, daughter, deadwood, descendant, flagellum, fork, foster child, frond, grandchild, granddaughter, grandson, hand, heiress, imp, joint, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, member, offshoot, offspring, organ, pinion, ramage, ramification, runner, sapling, sarment, seedling, set, shoot, slip, son, son and heir, sonny, spear, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, spur, stepchild, stepdaughter, stepson, stolon, sucker, switch, tail, tendril, thallus, twig, wing
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