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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

spawn / spôn/ • v. [intr.] (of a fish, frog, mollusk, crustacean, etc.) release or deposit eggs: the fish spawn among fine-leaved plants | [tr.] a large brood is spawned. ∎ (be spawned) (of a fish, frog, etc.) be laid as eggs. ∎ [tr.] (of a person) produce (offspring, typically offspring regarded as undesirable): why had she married a man who could spawn a boy like that? ∎ [tr.] produce or generate, esp. in large numbers: the decade spawned a bewildering variety of books on the forces. ∎ Comput. [tr.] generate (a dependent or subordinate computer process): from time to time it spawns two copies of the ip-up program, other times only one. • n. the eggs of fish, frogs, etc.: the fish covers its spawn with gravel. ∎ the process of producing such eggs. ∎ the product or offspring of a person or place (used to express distaste or disgust): the spawn of chaos: demons and sorcerers. ∎ the mycelium of a fungus, esp. a cultivated mushroom. DERIVATIVES: spawn·er n.

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spawn

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

spawn cast spawn XIV–XV; engender XVI. Aphetic — AN. espaundre shed roe, var. of OF. espandre (mod. épandre) shed, spill, pour out :- L. expandere EXPAND.
Hence spawn sb. eggs of fishes, etc. XV.

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spawn

A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | Copyright

spawn A fungal mycelium. Among mushroom growers, a block of manure or other suitable substrate bearing a growth of mycelium of Agaricus bisporus, used to start a new culture of mushrooms.

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spawn

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

spawn •adorn, born, borne, bourn, Braun, brawn, corn, dawn, drawn, faun, fawn, forborne, forewarn, forlorn, freeborn, horn, lawn, lorn, morn, mourn, newborn, Norn, outworn, pawn, porn, prawn, Quorn, sawn, scorn, Sean, shorn, spawn, suborn, sworn, thorn, thrawn, torn, Vaughan, warn, withdrawn, worn, yawn •airborne • Ayckbourn • seaborne •Eastbourne • stillborn • highborn •Osborne • winterbourne •waterborne • firstborn • Apeldoorn •althorn • hartshorn • leghorn •greenhorn • bighorn • inkhorn •tinhorn • foghorn • longhorn •shorthorn • shoehorn • Flügelhorn •bullhorn • alpenhorn • Matterhorn •acorn • seedcorn • sweetcorn •barleycorn • unicorn • Capricorn •leprechaun • tricorne • einkorn •popcorn • Runcorn • peppercorn •lovelorn • frogspawn • wire-drawn •wartorn • blackthorn • hawthorn •careworn • time-worn • shopworn •toilworn

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