Spawn



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GRE 红宝书

• n. ( 鱼等) 卵子; v.大量生产
• ［英］ n. ( 鱼等) 卵子 ( the eggs of aquatic animals) ; v.大量生产 ( bring forth, generate)
• ［例］ Bureaucracy spawns many rules that complicate our life.

Webster Collegiate

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 numbers
• transitive verb
  • 1.
    • a. to produce or deposit (eggs) — used of an aquatic animal
    • b. to induce (fish) to spawn
    • c. to plant with mushroom spawn
  • 2. bring forth, generate <the idea spawned controversy>
• ? spawner noun

II. noun

• Date: 15th century
• 1. the eggs of aquatic animals (as fishes or oysters) that lay many small eggs
• 2. product, offspring; also offspring in great numbers
• 3. the seed, germ, or source of something
• 4. mycelium especially prepared (as in bricks) for propagating mushrooms

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