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spud

DEFINITIONS OF: spud

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n an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland

Synonyms:
Irish potato, murphy, potato, tater, white potato
Types:
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baked potato
potato that has been cooked by baking it in an oven
chips, french fries, french-fried potatoes, fries
strips of potato fried in deep fat
home fries, home-fried potatoes
sliced pieces of potato fried in a pan until brown and crisp
mashed potato
potato that has been peeled and boiled and then mashed
Uruguay potato
similar to the common potato
jacket potato
a baked potato served with the jacket on
Type of:
starches
foodstuff rich in natural starch (especially potatoes, rice, bread)
solanaceous vegetable
any of several fruits of plants of the family Solanaceae; especially of the genera Solanum, Capsicum, and Lycopersicon
root vegetable
any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers

n a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds

Synonyms:
stump spud
Type of:
hand shovel
a shovel that is operated by hand

v produce buds, branches, or germinate

Synonyms:
bourgeon, burgeon forth, germinate, pullulate, shoot, sprout
germinate
cause to grow or sprout
Type of:
grow
increase in size by natural process

v initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum

“The well was spudded in April”
Type of:
bore, drill
make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
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