spawning season

collocation in English

meaningsofspawnandseason

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spawn
noun
uk
/spɔːn/us
/spɑːn/
the eggs of fish, ...
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season
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsiː.zən/us
/ˈsiː.zən/
one of the four periods of the year; spring, summer, autumn, ...
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(Definition ofspawnandseasonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I also welcome the restriction of thespawningseason.
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Special road signs advise motorists of 150 sites where migrating toads cross during thespawningseason.
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And time is short, because thespawningseasonstarts in the middle of this month.
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The speciesspawningseasonoccurs during springtime.
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These seasons take place during thespawningseason.
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Thespawningseasonis during summer and autumn.
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Followingspawningseason, some fish remain, while others move away.
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These fish only spawn once during thespawningseason.
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Spawningseasonis in the fall and winter.
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In fishes with an extendedspawningseason, within-year variations in growth rates of early life stages may be expected owing to variation in biotic and abiotic environmental factors.
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These worms were therefore under the influence of the gonadotropic hormones of the host, which influence their maturation, and result in the production of eggs during the host'sspawningseason.
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This massive pollution has happened at a time when a great many species, many of which are disappearing, are in fullspawningseason.
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The next weeks will be vital for the nextspawningseason, on which salmon production will depend for some years ahead.
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Why should there not be a proliferation of the cars of these gentlemen in the same way as the herring proliferate during thespawningseason?
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In this species there is a trend of smaller fish spawning earlier in thespawningseason.
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These fish only spawn once in aspawningseasonand produce around 75,000 eggs.
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Spotted seatrout have a longspawningseasonfrom spring through summer.
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During thespawningseason, the males go through a color change phase.
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The large concentrations of fish swimming upstream serves as a tourist attraction during thespawningseason.
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Thespawningseasonof the brook silverside occurs during the spring and early summer.
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Duringspawningseason, about 80% of these fish return to their birthplace.
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Egg masses were collected during thespawningseasonand reared in the lab.
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At thespawningseason, they host several species of turtles very guarded.
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Salmon was a major catch duringspawningseasonwhen the salmon swam upriver.
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Shrimp are often solitary, though they can form large schools during thespawningseason.
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