shed eggs/spawn

shed eggs/spawn
shed eggs/spawn
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  • spawn — I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French espandre to spread out, shed, scatter, spawn, from Latin expandere to expand Date: 15th century intransitive verb 1. to deposit or fertilize spawn 2. to produce young especially in large… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • spawn — /spɔn / (say spawn) noun 1. Zoology the mass of sex cells of fishes, amphibians, molluscs, crustaceans, etc., after being emitted. 2. Botany the mycelium of mushrooms, especially of the species grown for the market. 3. (usually derogatory) a. a… …  

  • spawn — [spôn] vt., vi. [ME spaunnen (for * spaunden) < Anglo Fr espaundre < OFr espandre, to shed < L expandere: see EXPAND] 1. to produce or deposit (eggs, sperm, or young) 2. to bring forth or be the source of (esp. something regarded with… …   English World dictionary

  • spawn — ► VERB 1) (of a fish, frog, etc.) release or deposit eggs. 2) produce or generate; give rise to. ► NOUN 1) the eggs of fish, frogs, etc. 2) the mycelium of a fungus, especially a cultivated mushroom. DERIVATIVES spawner noun …   English terms dictionary

  • Spawn — Spawn, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spawned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Spawning}.] [OE. spanen, OF. espandre, properly, to shed, spread, L. expandere to spread out. See {Expand}.] 1. To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do. [1913 Webster] 2. To bring …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • spawn binding — said of aquarium fish with ripe eggs that fail to spawn through lack of a male, incorrect environment, etc. Eggs may be shed, reabsorbed or decay and cause bacterial infection …   Dictionary of ichthyology

  • spawn — v. & n. v. 1 a tr. (also absol.) (of a fish, frog, mollusc, or crustacean) produce (eggs). b intr. be produced as eggs or young. 2 tr. derog. (of people) produce (offspring). 3 tr. produce or generate, esp. in large numbers. n. 1 the eggs of fish …   Useful english dictionary

  • spawn — [14] Spawn is ultimately the same word as expand, and etymologically it denotes the ‘spreading out’ of a fish’s eggs by its shedding them into the water. The word comes from espaundre, an Anglo Norman variant of Old French espandre ‘spread, shed’ …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • spawn — [14] Spawn is ultimately the same word as expand, and etymologically it denotes the ‘spreading out’ of a fish’s eggs by its shedding them into the water. The word comes from espaundre, an Anglo Norman variant of Old French espandre ‘spread, shed’ …   Word origins

  • spawn — verb 1》 (of a fish, frog, mollusc, etc.) release or deposit eggs.     ↘chiefly derogatory (of a person) produce (offspring). 2》 produce or generate; give rise to. noun 1》 the eggs of fish, frogs, etc. 2》 chiefly derogatory offspring. 3》 the… …   English new terms dictionary

  • scorpaeniform — Introduction also called  mail cheeked fish,         any member of the order Scorpaeniformes, a group of bony fishes that includes the sea robins, sculpins, and numerous other forms. They are characterized by a plate of bone running across each… …   Universalium

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