LekhoriLekhoriTo produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
A frog spawns thousands of tadpoles every year.
To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
To bring forth in general.
The web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.
The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism.
Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation.
Any germ or seed, even a figurative source.
This dreadful idea is the spawn of a large business conglomerate.
A surname.
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 ...
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