spawn

IPA: spˈɑn

(transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
(transitive) To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers.
(transitive) To bring forth in general.
(transitive) To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
(transitive) To plant with fungal spawn.
(intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
(intransitive) To reproduce, especially in large numbers.
(ergative, video games, of a character or object) (To cause) to appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time.

Examples of "spawn" in Sentences

When is the time they spawn
They usually spawn in winter.
The salmon swims upriver to spawn.
Birds spawn three times in a year.
Most insects usually spawn in spring.
I've seen a penguin spawning in winter.
They are moving to the upper stream to spawn.
The riparian wetlands were the main spawning areas.
Salmon run and spawn in the upper part of the river.
I want an episodic TV series to spawn from the movie is what I want.
Spawning is seasonal but it is protracted in the warmer waters of the tropics.
And i was wondering if anyone knows when White Bass are in spawn around the Texas area.
Enter King Kong Vs. Godzilla, his first colour feature, and lo and behold, the radiation spawn is charcoal gray.
The removal of these fish from the wild before they are able to spawn is rapidly becoming one of the biggest threats to their survival.
I am, however, happy to report that I caught my first of the season Sunday, and they were pretty aggressive even though the spawn is nearly two months away and the water is still darn cold.
The big difference between pacifists and the kind of activists that Jensen and Churchill are trying to spawn is that the pacifist says that he/she will do "whatever it takes" up to a point.
So the term spawn is rarely applied to the pure mycelium, but is applied to the substratum or material in which spawn is growing; that is, the substratum and mycelium together constitute the spawn.