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Webster 1913 Edition

Spawner

Spawn′er

,

Noun.

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.

Walton.

2.

Whatever produces spawn of any kind.

Webster 1828 Edition

Spawner

SPAWN'ER

,

Noun.

the female fish. the spawner and the melter of the barbel cover their spawn with sand.

Definition 2024

spawner

spawner

English

Noun

spawner ‎(plural spawners)

(fishing) A female fish, often specifically a salmon, which is physiologically ready to spawn
(computing) A program which spawns objects or processes as needed
(video games) An object in a simulated game world that spawns further objects.
- 2006, Alice J. Robison, Inventing fun: videogame design as a writing process (page 77)
  […] at this point, there are enemy birds that fly out of the pipe and attack the player's avatar. The pipes themselves are "enemy spawners" […]

Translations

female fish

Danish: hunfisk c
German: Rogener m, Rogner (de) m, Rogenfisch m

Norwegian:

Bokmål: hunnfisk m

Nynorsk: hofisk m
Volapük: (♂♀) fit (vo), (♂) hifit (vo), (♀) jifit (vo), (♂♀ salmon) salm (vo), (♂ salmon) hisalm, (♀) jisalm

computer program that spawns

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