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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Spawn, n.
 1. The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.
 2. Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
 3. Hort. The buds or branches produced from underground stems.
 4. Bot. The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi.
 Spawn eater Zool., a small American cyprinoid fish (Notropis Hudsonius) allied to the dace.