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spawner
Derived word form of spawn

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The decision to open a limited harvest this fall was informed by sonar and visual spawner surveys and juvenile out-migration counts.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2023

These spawner surveys are just part of the scientific study underway to track recovery in the Elwha.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2020

So it was a big deal last year when researchers successfully bred the yellow tang, a pelagic spawner collected from the reefs of Hawaii.

From National Geographic

The Raytheon Co., prolific spawner of radar tubes, has shown short-order cooks something new; a "range" which cooks food from the inside out.

From Time Magazine Archive

The most liberal estimate will not exceed from 800 to 1000 to one spawner, the aggregate per acre amounting to from 4000 to 5000.

From Three Acres and Liberty by Hall, Bolton