Spawn

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The eggs of aquatic animals such as bivalve mollusks, fishes, and amphibians.
  • n. Offspring occurring in numbers; brood.
  • n. A person who is the issue of a parent or family.
  • n. The source of something; a germ or seed.
  • n. A product or an outcome.
  • n. Mycelia of mushrooms or other fungi grown in specially prepared organic matter for planting in beds.
  • verb-intransitive. To deposit eggs; produce spawn.
  • verb-intransitive. To produce offspring in large numbers.
  • v. To produce or deposit (spawn).
  • v. To produce in large numbers.
  • v. To give rise to; engender: tyranny that spawned revolt.
  • v. To cause to spawn; bring forth; produce: a family that had spawned a monster.
  • v. To plant with mycelia grown in specially prepared organic matter.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
  • v. To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
  • v. To bring forth in general.
  • v. To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn
  • v. To plant with fungal spawn
  • v. To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
  • v. To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
  • v. (To cause) to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time.
  • n. The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism
  • n. Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation
  • n. Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring
  • n. The location in a game where characters or objects spontaneously appear.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.
  • v. To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.
  • verb-intransitive. To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.
  • verb-intransitive. To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.
  • n. The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.
  • n. Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
  • n. The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
  • n. The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To produce or lay (eggs): said of a female fish, and by extension of other animals; hence, to generate. It is sometimes applied, in contempt, to human beings.
  • To produce or lay eggs of the kinds called spawn, as a fish, frog, mollusk, or crustacean; by extension, to produce offspring: said of other animals, and, in contempt, of human beings.
  • To issue, as the eggs or young of a fish: by extension applied to other animals, and to human beings, in contempt.
  • n. The eggs or ova of various oviparous animals, as amphibians, fishes, mollusks, crustaceans, etc., when small and numerous, or extruded in more or less coherent masses; female roe.
  • n. The spat of the oyster, from the time of the discharge of the egg until the shell is visible and the creature has become attached.
  • n. Offspring of fish; very small fish; fry.
  • n. Offspring in general; a swarming brood: applied, mostly in contempt, to human beings.
  • n. In botany, the mycelium of fungi; the white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi are produced.
  • Containing spawn; spawning, or about to spawn; ripe, as a fish.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. call forth
  • n. the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs
  • v. lay spawn
  • Verb Form
    spawned    spawning    spawns   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cause    do    make   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    spawner    spawn point    respawn    hellspawn   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    generate    mycelium    bear   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abidjan    Abron    Amman    Amon    Antoine    Aton    Azerbaijan    Bataan    Bhutan    Bon