spawn

Meaning

Verb

1. To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
2. To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
3. To bring forth in general.
4. To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
5. To plant with fungal spawn.
6. To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
7. To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
8. To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, spontaneously in a game world at a particular place and time.
9. To appear, or cause (something or someone) to appear, unexpectedly and seemingly out of nowhere.
10. Of a person or non-egg-laying animal: to be born.

Noun

1. The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
2. Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
3. Any germ or seed, even a figurative source.
4. Any germ or seed, even a figurative source.
5. The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
6. Synonym of spawn point.

Synonyms

roe

breed

lay eggs

engender

offspring

produce

egg

🥚

generate

eggs

spat

lay

ovum

mycelium

propagate

give birth to

incur

induce

involve

lead

nursery

occasion

originate

ova

pose

pour out

procreate

product

prompt

propel

quantity production

reproduce

result

trigger off

young fish

breeding ground

fish egg

lay an egg

lead up

small fish

seed-plot

oviposit

volume-produce

kind of fish

fish’s roe

frog spawn

hyphae

oocytes

ovules

zona pellucida

bacterial filament

high production

large output

repetition work

bulk production

mass run

high-volume production

quantity manufacture

duplicate work

production on large scale

volume-production

beget

fungus threads

bring

bring forth

brood

cause

caviare

create

deposit

effect

give

give rise

give rise to

hard roe

hotbed

hypha

Pronounced as (IPA)

/spɔːn/

Etymology

Recorded since 1413; from Middle English spawnen, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Old French espandre, from Latin expandere (“stretch out; spread out”, verb). Doublet of expand. Compare also Middle English spalden, spolden, spawden (“to cut open (a fish)”).