cyon
English
Noun
cyon (plural cyons)
- Obsolete spelling of scion
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to That Event, in a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris, page 45
- Upon the body and ſtock of inheritance we have taken care not to inoculate any cyon alien to the nature of the original plant.
- 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to That Event, in a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris, page 45
Old French
Noun
cyon m (oblique plural cyons, nominative singular cyons, nominative plural cyon)
- scion (detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant)
- (figuratively) descendant
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