spawn

To produce many new things or living creatures.

• The film spawned several sequels.
• One successful game can spawn hundreds of copies.
• The movement has spawned many local groups.

Similar words: generate, produce, create

Common phrases: spawn new ideas, spawn a generation, spawn more something, spawn new generations

To lay eggs in water, as fish and frogs do.

• The frogs spawn in spring.
• These fish spawned near the riverbank.
• Salmon return to the same stream to spawn.

How to use it: spawn in something (Salmon spawn in shallow streams.)

Similar words: lay eggs

Common phrases: spawn in something, spawn upstream, spawn in water, spawn in spring

A group of frog eggs covered in clear jelly.

• We found spawn in the pond.
• The spawn will soon hatch into tadpoles.
• Clear jelly protects the frog spawn.

Similar words: frog eggs

Common phrases: frog spawn, a clump of spawn

A large group of eggs laid by animals that live in water.

• Fish spawn covered the rocks.
• The shallow water was full of spawn.
• Small fish ate some of the fresh spawn.

Similar words: eggs, roe

Common phrases: fish spawn, masses of spawn

Something that begins new growth, or something produced by a particular source.

• The plan was the spawn of fear.
• They called the new movement the spawn of corruption.
• These tiny seeds are the spawn of future forests.

How to use it: the spawn of something (The scheme was the spawn of greed.)

Similar words: seed, product

Common phrases: the spawn of, evil spawn