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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A scion.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The uvula.
  • noun An obsolete form of scion.
  • noun An obsolete spelling of the termination -tion. In coercion, epinicion, internecion, suspicion, the obelongs to the root.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See scion.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of scion.

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Examples

  • My sus­pi­cion is maybe still yes, but not asmuch …

    Dromedary Droid « Snarkmarket 2005

  • The part which is removed and set into the stock is called a cion if it is a piece of a branch, or a "bud" if it is only a single bud with a bit of tissue attached.

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

  • The cion is a cutting of the last year's growth (as of No. 1, in Fig. 14).

    The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 1906

  • A keen-bladed budding knife made for the purpose, a "cion" or "stick" of the variety to be budded, some twine (basswood bark is the best), make up the needed outfit for this operation.

    Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden James Sheehan

  • They had either to haul the unconscious android along with them, which would surely arouse suspi - cion, or wait with him here until the danger passed.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • Take your first thoughts away from her, Immacola — cion.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • I was very earnest to know, since my eyes had been such tell-tales, if their brother had any suspi-cion of my regard for him.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Ever since Fidel Castro's 1959 New Year's victory, the beginning of every year has been marked in Havana on January 2 with an anniversary celebration in the broad, open space known as Plaza de la Revolu-cion.

    1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

  • And when the morning comes, and coer-cion no longer works on the fighters and they are safe from magical attack, how many of them will remain to fight for their masters?

    Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • He had been taking Valium, Hal-cion, and Xanax that Casanova knew of.

    Kiss the Girls Patterson, James, 1947- 1995

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