spawning

nounreproduction

Antonyms for spawning

original

Word Origin & History

early 15c., from Anglo-French espaundre, Old French espandre "to spread out, pour out," from Latin expandere (see expand). The notion is of a "spreading out" of fish eggs released in water. The meaning "to engender, give rise to" is attested from 1590s. Related: Spawned; spawning.

Example Sentences for spawning

For months she had fed on lean and tasteless trout exhausted by spawning.

The spawning fish, flabby and useless, are killed in winter.

These illustrate the spawning method of solving the problem of survival.

He said it was a spawning bed, and I ought to put the twenty-nine back.

They are never seen in the lake, nor do I know if they return after spawning.

The first point is explained by the fact that these fish die after spawning.

It spawns in fresh waters, and survives after spawning and returns to the sea.

It does not seem to be known whether it also dies after spawning.

The flesh of spawning fish is loose and watery, and is most insipid and tasteless.

At spawning this might with advantage be mixed with some that has not gone through this process.

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Synonyms for spawning

Antonyms for spawning

fertile

fruitful

generation

generations

proliferous

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fertile

fruitful

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generations

proliferous

Synonyms for spawning

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