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Word entry · 5 letters

spawn

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"Fish eggs"

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5 lettersPronunciation /spɔːn/Part of speech verb, nounSorted anpswStarts with SEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. Eggs or young produced by fish, frogs, or similar animals.

Word origin

Recorded since 1413; from Middle English spawnen, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Old French espandre, from Latin expandere (“stretch out; spread out”, verb). Doublet of expand. Compare also Middle English spalden, spolden, spawden (“to cut open (a fish)”).

Used in a sentence

  • A frog spawns thousands of tadpoles every year.
  • The web server spawns a new process to handle each client's request.
  • Weather Underground, a covert organization that spawned countless other would-be revolutionary cadres - the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), the Black Liberation Army, the May 19 Communist Organization each of which

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