Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which spawns, as the female of fish, frogs, oysters, etc.; a ripe fish about to spawn: correlated with milter.
- noun In fish-culture, a spawn-gatherer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A mature female fish.
- noun Whatever produces spawn of any kind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun fishing A female fish, often specifically a
salmon , which is physiologically ready tospawn - noun computing A program which
spawns objects or processes as needed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a female fish at spawning time
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Examples
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So I would also much rather see someone "poach" a few small trout from private waters, that see someone legally kill a top spawner for bragging rights.
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One is a spring spawner, the other is a fall spawner.
Are their spring and fall spawn rainbow trout?Or do rainbow only spawn in the spring?.. 2009
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So I would also much rather see someone "poach" a few small trout from private waters, that see someone legally kill a top spawner for bragging rights.
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One is a spring spawner, the other is a fall spawner.
Are their spring and fall spawn rainbow trout?Or do rainbow only spawn in the spring?.. 2009
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This ironic bit of synergy was brought to my attention by Aaron Woolf, the acutely observant producer/director of King Corn whose latest documentary, Beyond The Motor City, boldly repurposes Detroit, home of the auto industry and spawner of sprawl, as the potential birthplace for a mass transit revival.
Kerry Trueman: America's Auto Asphyxiation: We Put the Loco in Locomotion 2010
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In a game which has been a byword for sportsmanship for so long and the spawner of that remonstrance 'it's just not cricket', Ponting's words were restrained:
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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In a game which has been a byword for sportsmanship for so long and the spawner of that remonstrance 'it's just not cricket', Ponting's words were restrained:
[sportsmanship] difficult when there's a lot riding on the result 2009
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/Ms. NMRT – May I suggest you teach your spawn a few manners before they become complete failures in life – like their spawner.
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/Ms. NMRT – May I suggest you teach your spawn a few manners before they become complete failures in life – like their spawner.
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A dragon spawner forms where the right conditions arise, and you simply create the conditions with the worldbuilding tool, rather than creating the area by hand
Believability 2004
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