spawn
verb
[ spɔːn ]
• (of a fish, frog, mollusc, crustacean, etc.) release or deposit eggs.
• "the fish spawn among fine-leaved plants"
• (of a person) produce (offspring).
• "why had she married a man who could spawn a boy like that?"
spawn
noun
• the eggs of fish, frogs, etc.
• "the fish covers its spawn with gravel"
• the product or offspring of a person or place.
• "the spawn of Satan"
• the mycelium of a fungus, especially a cultivated mushroom.
• "a supplier of spawn for shiitake mushrooms"
Origin:
late Middle English: shortening of Anglo-Norman French espaundre ‘to shed roe’, variant of Old French espandre ‘pour out’, from Latin expandere ‘expand’.
