scions
Descendants of nobility
Scions is the plural of scion, which has two main senses.
In horticulture, a scion is a shoot or twig cut from one plant to be grafted onto another: The scions were carefully selected from the healthiest trees.
More commonly, scions are descendants or heirs, especially of wealthy or prominent families: scions of old money, the scions of a political dynasty.
Family line of descent
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- pedigreeRecord of descent
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
descent · forebears · ancestors · dynasty · clan · family · kinship · posterity
Dividing via sharp edge
- graftingJoining tissues to grow together
- shootDischarge or capture
- propagationAct of spreading widely
- rootstockBase for grafted plants
budding · slip · cultivar · horticulture · nursery · rooting · cloning · layering
Property received from ancestors
- successionFollowing in order
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
- legacyWhat's passed down
birthright · patrimony · bequest · crown · monarchy · aristocracy · nobility · prince
ancestry
Family line of descent
heritage · descent · forebears · ancestors · dynasty · clan · family · kinship · posterity · descendants
cutting
Dividing via sharp edge
- graftingJoining tissues to grow together
- shootDischarge or capture
- propagationAct of spreading widely
rootstock · budding · slip · cultivar · horticulture · nursery · rooting · cloning · layering · hybridization
inheritance
Property received from ancestors
- successionFollowing in order
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
legacy · birthright · patrimony · bequest · crown · monarchy · aristocracy · nobility · prince · princess
- heirsheir apparent, heir presumptive, heiress, heirs, inheritor
- propagulesseeds, seed, spores, spore, bulbs
scionsancestors
Those from whom one descends
forebears · progenitors · forbears · predecessors · forefathers
scionsfounders
Those who begin institutions
self-made men · nouveaux riches · bootstrappers · parvenus · arrivistes