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The shoot (containing buds) that is used for grafting.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
scion (noun)1.
a detached living portion of a plant (as a bud or shoot) joined to a stock in grafting and usually supplying solely aerial parts to a graft
2.
a) - descendant child , especially a descendant of a wealthy, aristocratic, or influential family
b) - heir scion of a railroad empire
Scion (Wiktionary)
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Etymology
From Middle English sion, sioun, syon, scion, cion, from Old French cion, ciun, cyon, sion, from Frankish *kīþō, *kīþ, from Proto-Germanic *kīþô, *kīþą, *kīþaz (“sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *geye- (“to split open, sprout”), same source
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