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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, […]
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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
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