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spawn

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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.

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

spawner n.

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]

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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.spawnspawn - 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
Verb1.spawn - call forth
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"

spawn
Translations
Spanish spawn [spɔːn] vt (pej) → engendrar
videsovar, frezar
nhuevas fpl

French spawn [spɔːn] vtpondre;
(pej) → engendrer
vifrayer
nfrai m

German spawn [spɔːn] vilaichen
vthervorbringen, erzeugen
nLaich m

Italian spawn [spɔːn] vtdeporre;
(pej) → produrre
videporre le uova
nuova fpl

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No more than your work people mean here, whose crowning stupidity is their continuing to beget more stupid spawn for the slavery of the masters.
"Some cursed witch must have stolen my brother's child from the cradle and put that spawn of a starved devil in its place," Dominic would say to me.
Put the case that pretty nigh all the children he saw in his daily business life, he had reason to look upon as so much spawn, to develop into the fish that were to come to his net - to be prosecuted, defended, forsworn, made orphans, bedevilled somehow.
 
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