英语词汇“spawn”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	spawn
释义	spawn I. \ˈspȯn also -pän\ verb (-ed/-ing/-s) Etymology: Middle English spawnen, from Anglo-French espaundre, from Old French espandre, spandre to spread, disperse, from Latin expandere to spread out, expand — more at expand *transitive verb* 1. a. : to produce or deposit (eggs or spawn) — used of an aquatic animal b. : to induce (fish) to spawn — used especially of an aquarium fish c. : to strip spawn from (a ripe fish) especially for hatchery rearing of fish d. : to plant with mycelia of the common edible mushroom mostly in the form of spawn bricks < spawn beds for growing mushrooms > 2. : to bring forth : generate, produce < a universe that spawns forth only ghouls and ogres — M.D.Geismar > < a blizzard spawned in the Rocky mountains — New York Herald Tribune > < impatience and irritation are often spawned by ignorance or misunderstanding — A.E.Stevenson b. 1900 > < slums which spawn the criminal elements — John Barkham > < this ideology is spawned out of Communism — A.W.Barkley > especially : to produce in great quantity < no fewer than 500 private home-study schools … had been spawned — J.M.Flagler > < hypotheses might be spawned by the dozens — S.C.Pepper > < last year … spawned books by the millions — Harrison Smith > < abundant rains, spawning a profusion of desert wild flowers — Los Angeles (Calif.) Examiner > *intransitive verb* 1. : to deposit spawn < silver fish that … madly push their way upstream to spawn — American Guide Series: Michigan > 2. a. : to give forth young especially in large numbers or like spawn : reproduce b. : to develop in multitudes or masses II. noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English spawne, from spawnen, v. 1. a. : the eggs of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals that lay many small eggs b. : the fertilized eggs produced by one pair of fish at one time 2. a. : any product or offspring < Spanish moss, that peculiar spawn of the South — Henry Miller > < our likes and dislikes are often blind, the spawn of instinct or habit — Harry Bear > < shooing away young spawns … who wanted the glory of having touched the wonderful red machine — Marcia Davenport > b. : offspring in great numbers or masses : numerous issue < mules are spawn of Satan — Francis Yeats-Brown > < the spawn of careless dicta — B.N.Cardozo > 3. : the seed, germ, or source of something < democracy was … the very spawn of anarchy — V.L.Parrington > < the loom and shuttles made the old lady's garage apartment a spawn of noise — Western Review > 4. : the mycelium of fungi especially prepared usually in the form of bricks for propagating mushrooms 5. : gelatinous matter : break 6d < the spawn of an oil >
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