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spawn

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1. spawn - Noun

2. spawn - Verb

3. Spawn - Proper noun

Meaning

To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.

To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.

To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.

To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.

The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.

Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.

The buds or branches produced from underground stems.

The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The salmon swims upstream to spawn Source: Internet

A bald, bearded head with fists raised, a phalanx of food on sticks — Northwest artist Ryan W. Kelly says his papier-mâché-style creations are the spawn of “half-cocked dream logic.” Source: Internet

After recovering, Spawn learns that the Greenworld had imbued him with a gift — which he uses to contain Urizen by splitting the ground and imprisoning him inside the earth. Source: Internet

All salmonids spawn in fresh water, but in many cases, the fish spend most of their lives at sea, returning to the rivers only to reproduce. Source: Internet

A portion of a returning salmon run may stray and spawn in different freshwater systems. Source: Internet

Annually, salmon spawn in Haida, feeding on everything on the way upstream and down. Source: Internet

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