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spawn
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culch
a mass of broken stones, shells, and gravel that forms the basis of an oyster bed -
anadromous
(of fishes such as the salmon) migrating up rivers from the sea in order to breed -
beget
To beget something means to cause it to happen or be created. -
catadromous
(of fishes such as the eel) migrating down rivers to the sea in order to breed -
salmon
a marine and freshwater food fish, Salmo salar, of the family Salmonidae, having pink flesh, inhabiting waters off the North Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America near the mouths of large rivers, which it enters to spawn. -
shad
a deep-bodied herring, Alosa sapidissima, of Europe and North America, that migrates up streams to spawn, used for food.