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Noun spud has 2 senses
- potato, white potato, Irish potato, murphy, spud, tater - an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
--1 is a kind of root vegetable; solanaceous vegetable
--1 is a part of potato, white potato, white potato vine, Solanum tuberosum
--1 has parts: jacket
--1 has particulars:
- spud, stump spud - a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
--2 is a kind of hand shovel
Verb spud has 2 senses
- spud - initiate onsite drilling operations, as for petroleum; "The well was spudded in April"
--1 is one way to bore, drill
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout - produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted"
--2 is one way to grow
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
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