spawn

verb

/spɔːn/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they spawn	/spɔːn/ /spɔːn/
he / she / it spawns	/spɔːnz/ /spɔːnz/
past simple spawned	/spɔːnd/ /spɔːnd/
past participle spawned	/spɔːnd/ /spɔːnd/
-ing form spawning	/ˈspɔːnɪŋ/ /ˈspɔːnɪŋ/

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[intransitive, transitive] spawn (something) (of fish, frogs, etc.) to lay eggs
[transitive] spawn something (often disapproving) to cause something to develop or be produced
- The band's album spawned a string of hit singles.
Topics Change, cause and effectc2

Word Originlate Middle English: shortening of Anglo-Norman French espaundre ‘to shed roe’, variant of Old French espandre ‘pour out’, from Latin expandere ‘expand’.

spawn

noun

/spɔːn/

[uncountable]

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a soft substance containing the eggs of fish, frogs etc. see also frogspawnTopics Fish and shellfishc2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
Spawn is used after these nouns:
frog
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Word Originlate Middle English: shortening of Anglo-Norman French espaundre ‘to shed roe’, variant of Old French espandre ‘pour out’, from Latin expandere ‘expand’.