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spawnTo launch another program from the current program. The child program is spawned from the parent program. spawn 1. the mass of eggs deposited by fish, amphibians, or molluscs 2. Botany the nontechnical name for mycelium
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| Eggs and larvae of first-time spawners are less likely to successfully develop into fish," the WWF adds. One biologist McPhee profiles calls the shad "the Olympic fish" and indeed, in the De]aware River watershed, spawners have been found as much as 400 miles from the sea. Milliron said that from other work in monitoring the fish populations moving through the Owens system 90 percent of the browns and 95 percent of rainbows on a spawning run were more than 18 inches, meaning that few spawners were being taken. |
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