Spawner

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.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

spawner - a female fish at spawning time fish - any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills; "the shark is a large fish"; "in the living room there was a tank of colorful fish"