spawn

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I also highly doubt a tab would pay double-digit millions for photos of Brangelina spawn were they to produce some this month, even if they donated the money to charity.

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  1. noun The eggs of aquatic animals such as bivalve mollusks, fishes, and amphibians.
  2. noun Offspring occurring in numbers; brood.
  3. noun A person who is the issue of a parent or family.
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  • Whilst mammals may eat frog-spawn, there would need to be plenty offoxes, deer etc to deposit so much jelly over the area. —  BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content
  • I also highly doubt a tab would pay double-digit millions for photos of Brangelina spawn were they to produce some this month, even if they donated the money to charity. —  Tyee - Home
  • That's because a smart Father knows granting continued life to his spawn is about the best revenge he could ever get and he can relish the sweet savor of revenge for a long time. —  Bonez
  • Since you need to land to re-spawn, you'll find yourself relying on trial-and-error a lot more than you may have done in the past. —  Latest from PALGN
  • You think they may be coming clean and finally admitting their spawn is an evil murdering ho!? —  Blogger News Network
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spawn:   spawned ·  spawning ·  spawns
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English spawne, from spawnen, to spawn, from Anglo-Norman espaundre, from Latin expandere; see expand.

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  1. Earlymod. English spaune; from Middle English spawnen, spanen, from Old French espaundre, espandre, also espandir, shed, spill, pour out, spawn, same as espanir, blow, bloom as a flower, literally expand. F. épandre, spread, = Italian spandere, spill, scatter, shed, from Latin expandere, spread out, shed abroad: see expand. Cf. spannishing.
  2. Early modern English spaune; from spawn, v.
 

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