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 fish had eggs in her ovaries, but that didn't mean she was spawning. That actual act of spawning doesn't resemble anything like the spawn of a fish with which anglers are much more familiar -- largemouth bass. Unlike bass, male speckled trout don't fan out beds, and the females don't lay their eggs in beds.