The notion is of a "spreading out" of fish eggs released in water. The transitive meaning "to engender, give rise to" is attested from 1590s. Related: Spawned; spawning. spawn (n.) late 15c., "fish eggs," from spawn (v.); figurative sense of "brood, offspring," and, insultingly...
I'm really getting close to my limit and ready to just walk away form this game if the objectives which give the game meaning and purpose are so impractical to achieve. Gatekeeping players' sense of progression behind pure RNG such as this is, frankly, absurd. BSG should bring the spawn ...
Other forms:spawned; spawning; spawns Technically, the mass of small eggs laid by animals like fish, frogs, mollusks is calledspawn. 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 ...