Толковый словарь английского языка - spawn

I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French espandre to spread out, shed, scatter, ~, from Latin expandere to expand Date: 15th century intransitive verb to deposit or fertilize ~, to produce young especially in large numbers, transitive verb 1. to produce or deposit (eggs), to induce (fish) to ~, to plant with mushroom ~, bring forth, generate , ~er noun II. noun Date: 15th century the eggs of aquatic animals (as fishes or oysters) that lay many small eggs, product, offspring, the seed, germ, or source of something, mycelium especially prepared (as in bricks) for propagating mushrooms