Spawn Definition

spôn
spawned, spawning, spawns
noun
spawns
The mass of eggs or young produced by fish, mollusks, crustaceans, amphibians, etc.
Webster's New World
Something produced, esp. in great quantity; specif., numerous offspring or progeny.
Webster's New World
A product or an outcome.
The spawn of a prodigious imagination.
American Heritage
The mycelium of fungi, esp. of mushrooms grown to be eaten.
Webster's New World

(by extension, sometimes derogatory) Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring.

Wiktionary
verb
spawned, spawning, spawns
To produce or deposit (eggs, sperm, or young)
Webster's New World
To bring forth or be the source of (esp. something regarded with contempt and produced in great numbers)
Webster's New World
To produce offspring in large numbers.
American Heritage Medicine
To plant with spawn, or mycelium.
Webster's New World
To produce (offspring).
American Heritage
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Origin of Spawn

  • Recorded since 1413; from Middle English spawne, spawnen, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Old French espandre, from Latin expandere (“stretch out", "spread out").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English spawne from spawnen to spawn from Anglo-Norman espaundre from Latin expandere expand

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Spawn Sentence Examples

  • The spawn of the angler is very remarkable.

  • Dean crossed his fingers and hoped this affiance would spawn fewer complications than the last.

  • In about ten days, when the mass is milkwarm, the bed will be ready for spawning, which consists of inserting small pieces of spawn bricks into the sloping sides of the bed, about 6 in.

  • The breeding season lasts throughout spring and summer, and the female is able to spawn two, three or even four times in the year.

  • The mycelium produced from the spores dropped by the fungus or from the "spawn" in the soil, radiates outwards, and each year's successive crop of fungi rises from the new growth round the circle.

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