Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Spawn \Spawn\, n. [[root]170. See {Spawn}, v. t.]
   1. The ova, or eggs, of fishes, oysters, and other aquatic
      animals.

   2. Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.

   3. (Hort.) The buds or branches produced from underground
      stems.

   4. (Bot.) The white fibrous matter forming the matrix from
      which fungi.

   {Spawn eater} (Zo["o]l.), a small American cyprinoid fish
      ({Notropis Hudsonius}) allied to the dace.