I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fish
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For two days nothing happened, but on the third morning I checked the tank and found that the fish had spawned .
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While the fish are spawning the females can be pushed into shallow water or even out of the pond.
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High protein foods are also needed in conditioning for spawning , especially for hen fish , and after spawning to restore condition.
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It makes a good spawning medium, my fish spawned this spring and none of them lost a single scale.
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This is a difficult fish to spawn in the aquarium, and when it spawned successfully, few eggs may be produced.
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Brood size Neon Tetras are an easy fish to spawn , but it is not an easy feat to raise large broods.
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The fish will spawn among the fine-leaved plants.
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After the fish have spawned , remove the adults to prevent them from turning cannibal and eating the eggs.
industry
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Markowitz's two-parameter model spawned an academic industry engaged in exploring the ramifications of the investor behaviour implied in the original formulation.
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That in turn has spawned a growing industry in the trafficking of women.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The Arab-Israeli War of 1973 spawned the 1973 oil crisis.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I have a cynical notion that all religious revivals spawn from times of extreme economic disparity.
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It also involved the fate of the greatest spawning run of salmon in the world.
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The Mac creators are emblematic of a new kind of artist spawned by the protean nature of the computer.
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The shortages naturally spawned corruption as officials, themselves impoverished, exchanged favors for bribes.
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There is no mechanism whereby clouds of particular shapes can spawn daughter clouds resembling themselves.
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Through the information technologies they have spawned, computers step up the pace of the ticking.
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When the Discus spawn the eggs will hatch in 60 hours.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An older pair tending their spawn .
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Daemon spawn won't be able to home in and manifest themselves.
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It appears from monitoring equipment on individual trout that about 75 percent of these fish are from natural spawn .
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She then releases the spawn , trailing it in and amongst the stems and foliage of submerged plant life.
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Triumph followed triumph for the spawn of Naggaroth.
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We're all children of the Serpent, the spawn of the Form Manipulator.