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Definition

eggs created by a fish or other sea creature; or the act of laying them

or (more generally):

anything created in large number; or the act of producing it

Oh, she got a letter just like that and disappeared off to that-that school-and came home every vacation with her pockets full of frog spawn, turning teacups into rats.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

spawn = eggs

Those who had spawned Brewster Place, countless twilights ago, now mandated that it was to be condemned.
Gloria Naylor -- The Women of Brewster Place
The whole thing went down in infamy, spawning a live recorded CD and a series of festivals that continue to this day.
Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
Work that spawned weapons of mass destruction?
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
After all his crusading against their evil hybrid spawn?
Susan Ee -- Angelfall
Salt doesn't grow or breed or spawn.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
The team's success would spawn other robotics teams at the university, including an all-women's robotics squad.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
"Madame Wang," I said, "I would not bring my daughter so low as to match her to the spawn of a butcher."
Lisa See -- Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Now like the spawn of fish they float in the ocean.
Unknown -- The Epic of Gilgamesh
Not all of the ills have been remedied, however, and a new brood has been spawned by the program itself.
Roger Zelazny -- My Name is Legion
My rightful name is Bourne, sprung from Delta, spawned by Medusa!
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
Like spawning fish, the children came from everywhere to dive into the pile.
Jane Yolen -- The Devils Arithmetic
The first thing it did was to spawn a whole Pandora's box of DNA viruses-smallpox, influenza, and so on.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
By September, the salmon began working their way upstream to spawn.
Ben Mikaeslen -- Touching Spirit Bear
And Wang Lung would not willingly let him wed in the house, because of the spawn he would breed and one like him was enough.
Pearl S. Buck -- The Good Earth
Civilian and Millinery spawn.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars
I must rest here a moment, even if all the orcs ever spawned are after us.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring
I could leave Mum Olga and her spawn.
Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
Whenever Max was able to evade the gargantuan parent and race to the arena's opposite end, its spawn was already in swift pursuit.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
The fish won't have finished spawning, and if they have they'll be in very poorcondition.
Nevil Shute -- On the Beach

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