spawnnoun
uk/spɔːn/us/spɑːn/spawn noun (EGGS)
[ U ] the eggs of fish, frogs, etc.
See also
frogspawn
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Animal reproduction
- asexual
- asexual reproduction
- bird
- breed
- egg
- embryo
- embryonic
- estrogen
- fertilize
- incubate
- infertile
- inseminate
- lamb
- mate
- ova
- reproduction
- seminal
- spawning ground
- spermatozoon
- the birds and the bees idiom
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spawn noun (YOUNG)
[ C ] plural spawn literary a young animal or child:
disapproving He looked at me as if I was a spawn of Satan because I was smoking a cigarette.
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Animal young
- baby
- bugger
- calf
- calves
- chick
- colt
- cub
- fawn
- fledgling
- foal
- frogspawn
- fry
- gosling
- heifer
- litter
- offspring
- owlet
- peachick
- piglet
- pup
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Children & babies
spawnverb
uk/spɔːn/us/spɑːn/spawn verb (START)
[ T ] to cause something new, or many new things, to grow or start suddenly:
The new economic freedom has spawned hundreds of new small businesses.
Her death spawned countless films and books.
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Causing things to happen
- -ization
- -ize
- actuation
- agent
- awaken (sth) in sb
- be associated with sth
- beget
- draw
- fuel
- instigate
- instigator
- introduce
- lie
- plant
- produce
- rise
- usher
- usher sth in
- wreak
- wrought
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spawn verb (EGGS)
[ I ] to produce eggs:
The frogs haven't spawned yet.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Animal reproduction
- asexual
- asexual reproduction
- bird
- breed
- egg
- embryo
- embryonic
- estrogen
- fertilize
- incubate
- infertile
- inseminate
- lamb
- mate
- ova
- reproduction
- seminal
- spawning ground
- spermatozoon
- the birds and the bees idiom
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