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spawn
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SPAWN , the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network, is a project of the Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN), a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit environmental organization. SPAWN's stated mission is to "protect endangered salmon in the Lagunitas Creek ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN fish ▪ For two days nothing happened, but on the third morning I checked the tank and found that the fish had spawned . ▪ While the fish are spawning the females can be pushed into shallow water or even out of the ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spawn \Spawn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spawned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Spawning .] [OE. spanen, OF. espandre, properly, to shed, spread, L. expandere to spread out. See Expand .] To produce or deposit (eggs), as fishes or frogs do. To bring forth; to generate; -- ...
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All the obscenity and salacious infamy spawned in the muck of the abysmal pits of life seemed to drown her in seas of cosmic filth.
All the obscenity and salacious infamy spawned in the muck of the abysmal pits of Life seemed to drown her in seas of cosmic filth.
Each of the different cultural groups such as coho, steelhead and sockeye have different times and styles in which they run to spawn in the upland streams, but each of their cultures show a similarity of adaptation to the earth.
These heavily optimized fake stem cells biological robots in all but name spawn like cancer, ejecting short-lived anucleated secondary cells.
TV series that spawned it, the movie of Cowboy Bebop is a marvelous hodgepodge of hardboiled mystery fiction, science fiction action, and tragic love story, with more cultural influences than you could possibly list -- although Bebop otaku certainly have tried on their numerous fan websites.
She looked at Brock with new eyes, thinking he and the society which had spawned him represented everything that had gone wrong in her life.
Miss Kistemaeckers noticed that the cloaca of all three animals was very sore, and she writes that fertilisation of the ova of Andrias Scheuchzeri seems to take place not by copulation, nor even spawning, but by what she called the sexual milieu.
His Holiness now knows that this cybrid spawn is not only the agent of the Core, Federico .
Holiness knows where the cybrid spawn and her dupes are at this very moment.
Counter-missiles streamed to meet them, Dragons Teeth spawned, targets proliferated, Dazzlers flared, counter-missile and MDM impeller wedges vanished in mutual self-destruction.
No longer protected by the power of the light side of the Force, the Republic soldiers were completely demoralized by the terror and despair Kaan spawned in their minds.
Down in Falls City, in its schools, there were hundreds, maybe thousands of children like Luke and behind them was a society of poverty, ignorance, and neglect spawning new Lukes nightly.
One of the damned, like a hideous mogra, a creature spawned from the sludge of the Black Swamp.
Known as the Naos sharptooth, the fish spawned only in the coldest months, was shipped offworld, flash-frozen, and sold at exorbitant prices in eateries from Mon Calamari to Corellia.
First World War the number of carelessly spawned neonates had quintupled.