Spawn

Definition: Spawn

Spawn

Noun

1. The mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs.

Verb

1. Call forth.

2. Emit spawn, of fish; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spawn" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Spawn

Posterity

Noun: posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring, brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild.

Uncleanness

Spawn, offal, gurry; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap, sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.

Crosswords: Spawn

Die you bewinged spawn of Satan (Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls; writing credit: Steve Oedekerk)

Spawn of the North (1938)

Evil Spawn (1987)

Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn (1983)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Curse of the Spawn, Book 4: Lost Values (reference)

• Spawn of Dykes to Watch Out for (reference)

• Spawn of Skull Island (reference)

• Spawn, Book 10: Vengeance of the Dead (reference)

• Spawn, Book 5: Death and Rebirth (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Spawn - New Line Platinum Series (reference)

• Todd McFarlane's Spawn - The Ultimate Collection (Animated Series) (reference)

• Spawn (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Breeding the Spawn (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Spawn (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Salmon being counted when passing through weirs. By law, a certain percentage of salmon runs had to be allowed to escape commercial fisheries in order to spawn. To check the percentage, counting weirs were maintained on many streams. F&W - 10,111. Credit: Fisheries.

The dam before restoration, the drop creates a steep obstacle for anadromous fish returning to spawn. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

An historic anadromous fish ladder that leads from Quivett Creek to the headwater pond where alewives spawn. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Striped bass, Morone saxatilis, are important recreational sportfishes. In most parts of their range, they travel from ocean waters or estuaries up rivers to spawn. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

A salmon moves up stream to spawn. Credit: Gary Kramer.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

As privatization, deregulation and competition spawn, the new owners of the telecom service companies may be looking to enhance the level of customer services, offering contracting opportunities, particularly for U.S. consulting services in the field. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "spawn": frog spawn ♦ mushroom spawn ♦ spawn eater ♦ spawn from smth. ♦ spawn of a fish ♦ spawn takes. Additional references.

Ending with "spawn": frog-spawn.

Albanian

vezë peshku (Roe), pjellem, hedh vezët (spat), farë (egg, embryo, germ, pip, seed, semen, sort, species, sperm). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مشيجة الفطر, ‏نسل (breed, children, generation, lineage, offspring, parentage, posterity, procreate, progeny, ravel, seed), ‏ولد (baby, bear, beget, born, boy, breed, bring forth, deliver, engender, fall, father, generate, germinate, give birth, infant, interpolate, junior, kid, lad, mother, originate, produce, see the light, sire, son), ‏تكاثر (breed, generation, increase, luxuriate, mushroom, proliferate, proliferation, propagate, propagation, prosper, replicate, reproduce, reproduction, swarm), ‏توالد (breed, luxuriate, proliferate, proliferation, propagate, propagation, replicate, reproduce, reproduction), ‏تبيض (etiolation, ovulate), ‏أنتج (afford, bear, breed, create, do, generate, grow, induce, issue, make, originate, output, procreate, produce, push along, reproduce, result, turn out), ‏بيض السمك. (various references)

Bulgarian 

създавам (beget, build up, create, devise, erect, establish, float, form, make, mother, originate, present, raise up, start, throw up, work), яйца, снасям яйца, размножавам се (breed, increase, procreate, pullulate), раждам (be confined, bear, beget, breed, bring forth, drop, fawn, give, give birth, have, labor, labour, lie in wait, mother, procreate, produce, throw, whelp), хвърлям хайвера си (spend), хайвер (hard roe), мицел, засаждам с мицел, потомство (brood, generation, issue, offspring, posterity, progeny, seed), плодя се (breed, increase, multiply, propagate), племе (clan, rod, tribe), изчадие (abortion, monster). (various references)

Chinese 

产�"�物. (various references)

Czech

potìr (Fry), podhoubí, plodit (breed, cause, fruit, generate, procreate), klást jikry, jikry (Roe), být příèinou (underlie). (various references)

Danish

rogn (egg), mycelium (composed of hyphae and forming a thallus, mycelium, thallus, the vegetative part of a fungus), æg (egg). (various references)

Dutch

kuit (calf), viskuit, kikkerdril. (various references)

Esperanto

frajo. (various references)

Faeroese

rogn. (various references)

Farsi 

تولیدمثل کردن , تخم ماهی , جرم (Crime, Guilt, Mass, Misdeed), اشپل , بذر (Seed, Sperm). (various references)

Finnish

sienirihmasto (composed of hyphae and forming a thallus, mycelium, the vegetative part of a fungus), ymppi (graft, grafted vine, inoculum, size of inoculum), mäti (roe), laskea mätinsä, kutea (spawning, to spawn), kalanmäti (egg). (various references)

French

semence (sperm), se reproduire, se multiplier, progéniture, ponte (spawning, to spawn), pondre, oeuf, mycélium, frayer (spawning, to spawn), frai (spawning), faire naître, blanc de champignon, �"ufs. (various references)

German

Laich (egg), hervorbringen (afford, bear, born, borne, bring forth, create, develop, originate, produce, put forth, put out, send forth, sing out, throw up, to create, to spawn, utter, yield), Brut (brood, brooding, incubating, lot, mob, offset, progeny). (various references)

Greek 

ώα ψαριών, σπόρος (seed), γεννώ (bear, bear out, beget, born, breed, bring forth, calve, engender, generate, germinate, give birth, give birth to, lay, litter, originate, procreate, sire, whelp), γεννοβολώ (breed, generate), μυκήλιο (mycelium), παράγω σε μεγάλη ποσότητα, ωοτοκώ (lay eggs), εμβόλιο μύκητα, αυγό ψαριού (egg), αυγά ψαριών. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שריץ (swarm), ל�"טיל ביצים (lay eggs), תפטיר (mycelium), שרצים (vermin), ביצי �"�'ים (caviar). (various references)

Hungarian

ivadék (brood, descendant, get, issue, offspring, progeniture, progeny, scion), poronty (brat, tad), ikra (eggs, seed, spat), ebihal (bullhead, tadpole). (various references)

Indonesian

telur kodok, telur ikan (roe), bertelur. (various references)

Italian

uova (eggs). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

玉子 (egg, roe), 卵 (egg, in the making, roe). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たま�" (egg, in the making, roe). (various references)

Korean 

알. (various references)

Manx

sliught (issue, line), poar, oghyragh (roe), oghyr (berry, ochre, roe), mylgaghey (spawning), gloagh (gel, gelatine). (various references)

Pig Latin

awnspay.(various references)

Portuguese

micélio (composed of hyphae and forming a thallus, mycelial strand, mycelium, rhizomorph, stringy mycelium, thallus, the vegetative part of a fungus). (various references)

Romanian

se înmulţi (be rife, breed, increase, multiply, pullulate, thicken, wax rife), puiet (chickens, sapling), progeniturã (issue, offspring, progeny, seed), prãşi (hoe, weed), plodi (be born, bread, procreate), plevuşcã (Fry, minnow), icre (caviar, caviare, Roe), depune icre, da naştere la (beget, breed, bring, engender, father, gender, give birth to, give rise to). (various references)

Russian 

метать икру, плодиться, плодить икра, икра (caviar, caviare, roe). (various references)

Scottish

cladh (churchyard, graveyard). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mrestiti se, mrest, mlađ, ikra (caviar, caviare, roe). (various references)

Spanish

huevas (egg), freza (dung, seed, spat), desovar. (various references)

Swedish

yngel (brood, fry), rom (roe, Rome, rum, spawn of a fish), mycelium (mycelium), lägga rom. (various references)

Turkish

yumurtlamak (blunder out, blurt out, deposit, lay, lay eggs, ovulate), yumurta (egg, ovi-, ovo-, ovular, ovum), yavrulamak (breed, calve, cub, drop, farrow, fawn, foal, have kitten, kid, kitten, litter, pig, propagate, pup, teem, throw, whelp, yean), ortaya çıkmak (appear, approve oneself, arise, burst, come along, come forward, come in sight, come in view, come into the open, come out, crop out, crop up, debouch, emerge, fall out, occur, offer, outcrop, shape, show up, spring, surface, turn up), meydana getirmek (achieve, bring about, bring forth, bring to pass, compose, create, do, effect, effectuate, generate, turn out), durmadan doğurmak, döl (fruit, offspring, progeniture, progeny, race, seed, semen). (various references)

Ukrainian

ікра (caviar, caviare, Roe), ікринка (Berry), нереститися, мальки, зароджуватися, породжувати (breed, bring forth, engender, father, gender, generate, germinate, mother, originate, procreate, proliferate, reproduce), плодитися (breed, populate). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sò (conchiferous), giống (agreement, alike, like), con cháu (descendant, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny), ếch. (various references)

Welsh

sil (fry). (various references)

1. urum. (various references)

lac, lacta, lacte, lactis. (various references)

frai. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spawn": spawned, spawner, spawners, spawning, spawns. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spawn" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Scawn, shawn, Spaan, spamn, spann, Spaw, spawna, spazn, spewen, spewm, spewn, sprawn, spwan. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pawns.

-1 letter: awns, naps, pans, pawn, paws, sawn, snap, snaw, span, swan, swap, wans, waps, wasp.

-2 letters: asp, awn, nap, naw, pan, pas, paw, sap, saw, spa, wan, wap, was.

-3 letters: an, as, aw, na, pa.

+1 letter: prawns, spawns.

+2 letters: enwraps, impawns, inwraps, pawnees, pawners, pawnors, snowcap, spawned, spawner, stewpan, swanpan, unwraps, weapons.

+3 letters: lapwings, newspeak, pawnages, pawnshop, pinwales, prawners, predawns, prewarns, pshawing, shwanpan, snapweed, snowcaps, snowpack, spanworm, spawners, spawning, stewpans, swamping, swanpans, swapping, whipsawn, wingspan, yawpings.

+4 letters: downplays, gangplows, knapweeds, manpowers, newspaper, newspeaks, parawings, pastedown, pawnshops, phasedown, playdowns, plowlands, shwanpans, snapweeds, snowpacks, snowscape, spanworms, sprawling, swampland, townscape, warplanes, waxplants, wingspans, wrappings.