Spawn

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)  (of a character or object) To appear spontaneously in a game at a certain point and time.

Derived terms

 * respawn
 * spawn point
 * spawner

Noun

 * 1) The numerous eggs of an aquatic organism
 * 2) Mushroom mycelium prepared for (aided) propagation
 * 3) (by extension) Any germ or seed, even a figurative source; offspring

Derived terms

 * hellspawn

Thesaurus
albumen, bear, beget, breed, bring about, bring forth, bring into being, brood, call into being, cause, caviar, clutch, coin, conceive, concoct, contrive, cook up, create, deposit, design, develop, devise, discover, dream up, drop, egg, egg white, eggshell, engender, evolve, fabricate, farrow, father, fish eggs, frame, fry, generate, get, give being to, give birth to, give rise to, glair, hatch, improvise, invent, lay, litter, make, make do with, make up, mature, mint, nest, originate, ovule, parent, plan, procreate, produce, roe, sire, spat, strike out, think out, think up, vitellus, white, yellow, yield, yolk, young

Etymology
Recorded since 1413; from spawne:, spawnen:, from  espaundre:, from  espandre, from  expandere:.

Verb

 * German: ablaichen, laichen
 * Latvian: nārstot


 * Scottish Gaelic: cladh
 * Turkish: yumurtlamak


 * German: erzeugen, hervorbringen
 * Scottish Gaelic: cladh


 * Turkish: yumurtlamak


 * German: erzeugen


 * Turkish: meydana getirmek, oluşturmak, ortaya çıkmak


 * German: laichen
 * Latvian: nārstot


 * Scottish Gaelic: cladh
 * Turkish: yumurtlamak, durmadan doğurmak


 * German: (sich wie Karnickel) vermehren

Noun

 * German: Laich
 * Latvian: ikri


 * Scottish Gaelic: cladh
 * Turkish: döl, yumurta


 * Turkish: nesil, soy, zürriyet

Anagrams

 * pawns