Spawn

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic animals.

2. Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.

3. The buds or branches produced from underground stems.

4. The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from which fungi. Spawn eater (Zoöl.), a small American cyprinoid fish (Notropis Hudsonius) allied to the dace.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do.

2. To bring forth; to generate; -- used in contempt. One edition [of books] spawneth another. Fuller.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To deposit eggs, as fish or frogs do.

2. To issue, as offspring; -- used contemptuously.