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1. An edible tuber native to South America
   - potato, white potato, Irish potato, murphy, tater, tattie [UK, dialect], tatie [UK, dialect]
    
2. A sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
   - stump spud

1. Initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
   "The well was spudded in April"
    
2. Produce buds, branches, or germinate
   - shoot, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon [archaic], burgeon forth, sprout, burgeon

Derived forms: spuds, spudded, spudding

Type of: bore, drill, grow, hand shovel, root vegetable, solanaceous vegetable, starches

Part of: potato, Solanum tuberosum, white potato, white potato vine

Encyclopedia: Spud