Word Direct Answers

What does "spawn" mean?

Spawn: To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt. One edition [of books] spawneth another. Fuller.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.
  2. 3.To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.
  3. 4.The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.
  4. 5.Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
  5. 6.(Hort.) The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
  6. 7.(Bot.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi. Spawn eater (Zoöl.), a small American cyprinoid fish (Notropis Hudsonius) allied to the dace.

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