scion / ˈsaɪ ən /

⚽高中词汇后裔子孙子孙后代后嗣

scion 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a descendant.
  2. Also ci·on . a shoot or twig, especially one cut for grafting or planting; a cutting.

scion 近义词

n. 名词 noun

offshoot, descendant

更多scion例句

  1. The scion of a wealthy Florida family, Greenberg, now 36, had swept into the Seminole County tax collector’s office in 2016 with a partially self-funded campaign, defeating longtime incumbent and fellow Republican Ray Valdes on the promise of reform.
  2. The contemporary State Department is the scion of America’s first intelligence and diplomatic organization, the Committee of Secret Correspondence.
  3. Grafting a scion — the flowering, fruiting part of a plant — onto established rootstock can help young fruit trees or vines bear fruit earlier and improve their resistance to pests and disease.
  4. Also, as a scion of the Hyatt Hotels family fortune, Microsoft board member, and founder of the Chicago-based PSP Partners investment firm, Pritzker has a nonpareil grasp on the implications for business and investors.
  5. He was a scion of immense wealth, a civil rights activist, and an art collector and patron.
  6. The party will need to do much, much more than replace one scion with another if it is ever to come back to national prominence.
  7. The rock star scion became one of the loudest voices of her generation; prolific on social media and in the British press.
  8. A DuPont family scion was convicted of sexually assaulting his daughter but received no jail time.
  9. Sharif, 63, was born into money as the scion of a very wealthy family in Lahore.
  10. Such an alliance was not to be tolerated for a moment, in connection with the last scion of his name and race.
  11. Personally, I enjoyed the frank, untrammelled and prodigiously accomplished scion of a vulgar race.
  12. Doctor Bataille, poor man, is the scion of an ordinary ancestry within the narrow limits of flesh and blood.
  13. The compulsory subdivision of estates at the death of the owner enables every scion to live, if not to thrive, on the home stock.
  14. Why, I assumed that your quest of the quack's scion would have trained you down fit for anything.