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Universal
1the 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
2chiefly
derogatory the product or offspring of a person or place:the spawn of Satan
3the mycelium of a fungus, especially a cultivated mushroom: a supplier of spawn for shiitake mushrooms
1 [no object] (of a fish, frog, mollusc, crustacean, etc.) release or deposit eggs:the fish spawn among fine-leaved plants (
be spawned)
(of a fish, frog, etc.) be laid as eggs: the fish can locate the precise stream in which they were spawned
2 [with object] often
derogatory (of a person) produce (offspring):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