Descendant vs. Scion — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Descendant and Scion
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Descendant
One whose descent can be traced to a particular individual or group
A descendant of Queen Victoria.
Descendants of a prize-winning horse.
Scion
A descendant or heir, especially of a wealthy or prominent family
Scion of the ruling dynasty.
Descendant
Something derived from a prototype or earlier form
Today's bicycles are descendants of the earlier velocipede.
Scion
(Botany) A detached shoot or bud from a plant that is joined to a rootstock in grafting.
Descendant
In astrology, the point of the ecliptic or the sign of the zodiac that sets in the west at the time of a person's birth or other event.
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Scion
A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.
Descendant
Variant of descendent.
Scion
The heir to a throne.
Descendant
Descending; going down
The elevator resumed its descendant trajectory.
Scion
A guardian.
Descendant
Descending from a biological ancestor.
Power in the kingdom is transferred in a descendant manner.
Scion
(botany) A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.
Descendant
Proceeding from a figurative ancestor or source.
Scion
A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.
Descendant
One of the progeny of a specified person, at any distance of time or through any number of generations.
The patriarch survived many descendants: five children, a dozen grandchildren, even a great grandchild.
Scion
Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock.
Descendant
(figuratively) A thing that derives directly from a given precursor or source.
This famous medieval manuscript has many descendants.
Scion
A descendent or heir;
A scion of royal stock
Descendant
(biology) A later evolutionary type.
Dogs evolved as descendants of early wolves.
Descendant
(linguistics) A language that is descended from another.
English and Scots are the descendants of Old English.
Descendant
(linguistics) A word or form in one language that is descended from a counterpart in an ancestor language.
Descendant
Descendent.
Descendant
One who descends, as offspring, however remotely; - correlative to ancestor or ascendant.
Our first parents and their descendants.
The descendant of so many kings and emperors.
Descendant
A person considered as descended from some ancestor or race
Descendant
Going or coming down
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