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spawn

/spawn/US // spɔn //UK // (spɔːn) //

卵子,产卵,催生,卵巢

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural spawn, spawns.

    • : Zoology. the mass of eggs deposited by fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, etc.
    • : Mycology. the mycelium of mushrooms, especially of the species grown for the market.
    • : Usually Disparaging. a swarming brood; numerous progeny:Diners at the restaurant were annoyed by the two inconsiderate parents and their unruly spawn.
    • : any person or thing regarded as the offspring of some stock, idea, etc.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to the spawning of a character or item in a video game:a spawn point;the spawn rate.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to deposit eggs or sperm directly into the water, as fishes.
    • : to originate at a fixed point in an existing game environment:An enemy character just spawned right on top of me!
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to produce.
    • : to give birth to; give rise to: His sudden disappearance spawned many rumors.
    • : to produce in large number.
    • : to plant with mycelium.

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Examples

  • There is a misconception among locals that the small masu found in winter—which they call pestrushka— are a different species entirely from the larger fish—called sima— that come in summer to spawn.

  • The brand took off, becoming a poster child of the e-commerce movement that would spawn many a “Warby Parker of X”s.

  • Since his Carnegie Mellon team won the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007 — the race that spawned today’s self-driving movement — he has been one of the industry’s central players, first co-founding Google’s self-driving unit and later leading it.

  • Now, these communities are counting on art to keep their economies going amid the crisis spawned by the coronavirus pandemic.

  • In recent years, she adds, Tbilisi has spawned a new crop of free-thinking youngsters planning their own startups.

  • Well known for his gimmicks, Daylyt entered the stage in a Spawn costume that could stop traffic at Comic Con.

  • So why is it that this new flurry of celebrity spawn are able to create their own identities while so many others have failed?

  • The same, however, historically cannot be said for famous spawn turned high-fashion models.

  • That is not to say that the focus on Cohle and Hart does not spawn two compelling performances.

  • Replaying sections will spawn enemies in the same place, but what happens then changes from time to time.

  • They run up into fresh water to spawn, and in the process are scooped out by the basket-load.

  • Those in that trough right behind you are just hatching, they're from the first batch of spawn in the early spring run.

  • I opened a big-bellied one indeed, and found it full of spawn.

  • The salmon go over a hundred miles up to the McCloud River to spawn, and will jump or leap up small falls or rapids in their way.

  • Worse than all, too, the common trout deteriorated, for they had fed on the spawn of the salmo eriox.