spawn

spawn  (spôn)

n.

1. The eggs of aquatic animals such as bivalve mollusks, fishes, and amphibians.

2. Offspring occurring in numbers; brood.

3. A person who is the issue of a parent or family.

4. The source of something; a germ or seed.

5. A product or an outcome.

6. Mycelia of mushrooms or other fungi grown in specially prepared organic matter for planting in beds.

v. spawned, spawn·ing, spawns

v.intr.

1. To deposit eggs; produce spawn.

2. To produce offspring in large numbers.

v.tr.

1. To produce or deposit (spawn).

2. To produce in large numbers.

3. To give rise to; engender: tyranny that spawned revolt.

4. To cause to spawn; bring forth; produce: a family that had spawned a monster.

5. To plant with mycelia grown in specially prepared organic matter.

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[Middle English spawne, from spawnen, to spawn, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Latin expandere; see expand.]

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spawner n.

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spawn

Noun

the jelly-like mass of eggs laid by fish, amphibians, or molluscs

Verb

1. (of fish, amphibians, or molluscs) to lay eggs

2. to cause (something) to be created: the depressed economy spawned the riots [Anglo-Norman espaundre]

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spawn  (spôn)

Noun

1. The eggs of water animals such as fish, amphibians, and mollusks.

2. Offspring produced in large numbers.

Verb

To lay eggs; produce spawn.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	spawn - the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs egg - animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds roe - the egg mass or spawn of certain crustaceans such as the lobster
Verb	1.	spawn - call forth breed, engender cause, do, make - give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident"
	2.	spawn - lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn" spat - spawn; "oysters spat" lay - lay eggs; "This hen doesn't lay"

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spawn

verb generate, produce, give rise to, start, prompt, provoke, set off, bring about, spark off, set in motion

Translations

spawn [spɔːn] vt (pej) → engendrar

vi → desovar, frezar

n → huevas fpl

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spawn [spɔːn] vt → pondre;

(pej) → engendrer

vi → frayer

n → frai m

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spawn [spɔːn] vi → laichen

vt → hervorbringen, erzeugen

n → Laich m

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spawn [spɔːn] vt → deporre;

(pej) → produrre

vi → deporre le uova

n → uova fpl