| 单词 | spawn |
| 释义 | spawn (once / 1736 pages) nv Technically, the mass of small eggs laid by animals like fish, frogs, mollusks is called spawn. But the word has been borrowed to mean offspring, or the act of making them in general. When someone is in league with the devil, a preacher might refer to them as “Satan’s spawn.” Your dad probably find something satanic in the kids next door when he refers to them as the neighbor’s spawn. Bill Gates’ programming project in college spawned Microsoft, a multi-billion dollar industry giant. WORD FAMILYspawn: spawned, spawner, spawning, spawns+/spawner: spawners USAGE EXAMPLESDecoding a genome now runs between a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, spawning a flurry of potential new applications. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) A bypass channel for the irrigation dam would be built near the Montana-North Dakota border to let endangered pallid sturgeon reach upstream spawning grounds. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Of the salmon and steelhead that now return to spawn each year, experts say, about 70 to 90 percent originate in hatcheries. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1n the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs Hypo|Hyper roe the egg mass or spawn of certain crustaceans such as the lobster egg animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds 2v lay spawn The salmon swims upstream to spawn Hypo|Hyper spat spawn lay lay eggs 3v call forth Syn|Hyper breed, engender cause, do, make give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally |
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