meaning of spawn

1. To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.
2.
To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt.
3.
To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.
4.
To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.
5.
The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.
6.
Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
7.
The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
8.
The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.
9.
spawn system> To create a child process in a multitasking operating system. E. g. Unixs fork system call or one of the spawn library routines provided by most MS-DOS, Novell NetWare and OS/2 C compilers - spawnl, spawnle, etc.
10.
the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs


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