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spawn S0610600 (spôn)n.1. The eggs of aquatic animals such as bivalve mollusks, fishes, and amphibians.2. Offspring, especially when occurring in large numbers.3. A product or an outcome: the spawn of a prodigious imagination.4. 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 (offspring).3. To produce or give rise to: tyranny that spawned revolt.4. 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.]
spawn′er n.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | spawner - a female fish at spawning timefish - 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" |
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