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   spawn

   /spɔːn/

   verb

   • 1. (of a fish, frog, mollusc, crustacean, etc.) release or deposit eggs: "the fish spawn among fine-leaved plants"
   • ▪ (of a fish, frog, etc.) be laid as eggs: "the fish can locate the precise stream in which they were spawned"
   • ▪ (of a character or object in a video game) appear at a certain point in the game: "then they enter the undead land where defenders will spawn to fight against them"
   • 2. (of a person) produce (offspring): derogatory "why had she married a man who could spawn a boy like that?"
   • ▪ produce or generate a large number of: "the decade spawned a bewildering variety of books on the forces"

   noun

   • 1. the eggs of fish, frogs, etc.: "the fish covers its spawn with gravel"
   • ▪ the process of producing spawn: "lax regulations, especially during the spawn, are responsible for the declining populations"
   • 2. the product or offspring of a person or place: derogatory "the spawn of Satan"
   • 3. the mycelium of a fungus, especially a cultivated mushroom: "a supplier of spawn for shiitake mushrooms"

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

   Derivatives

   • 1. spawner noun

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   • spawn′er n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 1. (Zoology) the mass of eggs deposited by fish, amphibians, or molluscs 3.

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   What is spawn of repression?

   • 1. (Often derogatory) offspring, issue, product, seed (chiefly biblical), progeny, yield They are the spawn of Bible-belting repression. 1. generate, produce, give rise to, start, prompt, provoke, set off, bring about, spark off, set in motion His novels spawned both movies and television shows.

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   • The spawned hairpins grew and spawned further hairpins in like fashion. This, in turn, spawned a solitary embolus which passed into the systemic, morphologically right, ventricle and thence into the right coronary artery. This lower branch was found to spawn a branch of solitary waves in the long-wave limit.

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