Definition of "spawn" []

• The eggs of aquatic animals such as bivalve mollusks, fishes, and amphibians. (noun)
• Offspring occurring in numbers; brood. (noun)
• A person who is the issue of a parent or family. (noun)
• The source of something; a germ or seed. (noun)
• A product or an outcome. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "So the term spawn is rarely applied to the pure mycelium, but is applied to the substratum or material in which spawn is growing; that is, the substratum and mycelium together constitute the spawn."
• "I am, however, happy to report that I caught my first of the season Sunday, and they were pretty aggressive even though the spawn is nearly two months away and the water is still darn cold."
• "I want an episodic TV series to spawn from the movie is what I want."