Population Demographics for St Joseph, Minnesota in 2016 and 2015.
Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  spawn(verb) the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs. 2  engender, breed, spawn(verb) call forth. 3  spawn(verb) lay spawn. The salmon swims upstream to spawn.
The word fertile means able to reproduce, but like so many words, that's just the beginning. The fact that she gave birth to eight kids was proof that she was fertile; her fertile imagination explained their unusual names. The distance between fertile's literal meaning (able to make babies) and its figurative ones (productive, prolific, full of potential) is small. A child's mind is a fertile place; an idea can grow there very easily. Rabbits are famously fertile creatures; they can spawn several generations in a matter of months. And fertile ground can be arable land or a situation that provides the perfect opportunity.