| When he was running for the job, they described him as an amiable but uncurious and dimwitted scion. |
| Time and again, I have observed suckering and incompatibility between rootstock and scion. |
| Grafting was unknown to them, and even if it had been, months would have been required to effect the graftage of an oak limb and a scion. |
| She is after all the scion of mighty kings, no matter how ill-gotten she may be. |
| The scion to a Manhattan real-estate fortune, he had determined early on to pour his wealth into projects that helped other people. |
| Every so often I try and re-invent myself as a scion of publishing and literature. |
