"spawn" in the noun sense
1. spawn
the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs
"spawn" in the verb sense
1. engender, breed, spawn
call forth
2. spawn
lay spawn
"The salmon swims upstream to spawn"
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