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n.

The eggs of aquatic animals such as bivalve mollusks, fishes, and amphibians.
Offspring occurring in numbers; brood.
A person who is the issue of a parent or family.
The source of something; a germ or seed.
A product or an outcome.
Mycelia of mushrooms or other fungi grown in specially prepared organic matter for planting in beds.

v. spawned, spawn·ing, spawns

v. intr.

To deposit eggs; produce spawn.
To produce offspring in large numbers.

v. tr.

To produce or deposit (spawn).
To produce in large numbers.
To give rise to; engender: tyranny that spawned revolt.
To cause to spawn; bring forth; produce: a family that had spawned a monster.
To plant with mycelia grown in specially prepared organic matter.

[Middle English spawne, from spawnen, to spawn, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Latin expandere; see expand.]

spawn'er n.

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Noun