#scion

• Grafts — Regional, archaic, or popular plural form for the noun 'altoi' (contextually treated as feminine) or rarely used to designate the totality of twigs or shoots harvested for the purpose of carrying out the grafting process; reproductive shoots.
• Scion — A fragment of a stem, branch, or bud taken from a noble plant, which is inserted and fixed onto another plant (rootstock) to merge structurally and live together. As a verb (a altoi), it represents the horticultural act of executing this vegetative union; colloquially, it means to hit or strike someone.
• Scion — An archaic graphical or phonetic variant for the noun 'altoi'; designates the noble vegetative piece (shoot or bud) used in grafting operations, found under this form in 19th-century dictionaries or old agricultural charters.