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Spawner   Listen
noun
Spawner  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A mature female fish. "The barbel, for the preservation or their seed, both the spawner and the milter, cover their spawn with sand."
2.
Whatever produces spawn of any kind.





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"Spawner" Quotes from Famous Books



... school? Might have known it, though. Uncle Phil was fond of the sort of education that doesn't educate. I'm glad you fellows found me. I'll go home and collect every red cent, just to keep it out of the hands of the supercilious bunch of bishops that run that sissy-spawner." ...
— The Pathless Trail • Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel


Words linked to "Spawner" :   spawn, fish


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