spawned

Verb

spawn (third-person singular simple present spawns, present participle spawning, simple past and past participle spawned)

1. (transitive) To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.
   • A frog spawns thousands of tadpoles every year.
2. (transitive) To generate, bring into being, especially nonmammalian beings in very large numbers.
3. (transitive) To bring forth in general.
   • The web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.
4. (transitive) To induce (aquatic organisms) to spawn.
5. (transitive) To plant with fungal spawn.
6. (intransitive) To deposit (numerous) eggs in water.
   • Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn.2014 April 20, Richard Conniff, “An evolutionary family drama”, in The New York Times

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