cyon
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English
Noun
cyon (plural cyons)
- Obsolete spelling of scion.
- 1613, G[ervase] M[arkham], “Of the Setting or Planting of the Cyons or Branches of Most Sorts of Fruit-trees”, in The English Husbandman, […], revised edition, London: […] [Augustine Matthews and John Norton] for Henry Taunton, […], published 1635, →OCLC, 2nd part (Containing the Art of Planting, Grafting, and Gardening, […]), page 132:
- [If] you finde a certaine miſlike or conſumption in the plant, you ſhall immediatly vvith a ſharp knife cut the plant off ſlope-vviſe upvvard, about three fingers from the ground, and ſo let it reſt till the next ſpring, at vvhich time you ſhall behold nevv cyons iſſue from the roote, […]
- 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
- Upon the body and ſtock of inheritance we have taken care not to inoculate any cyon alien to the nature of the original plant.
Anagrams
Old French
Noun
cyon oblique singular, m (oblique plural cyons, nominative singular cyons, nominative plural cyon)
- scion (detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant)
- (figuratively) descendant