noun, masculine/syʁ.ʒɔ̃/plural: surgeons
shoot (new growth from the trunk of a tree); offshoot, rebirth (something that is reborn or grows out of something else again); offspring, progeny (descendant of someone)
Inherited from Middle French sourgon, sourjon, from Old French sorjon, sourjon (“source”) (1200s), from a conjugated form of sourdre (see sourjant) + -on, from Latin surgere. The modern spelling dates from 1541.