Noun spud has 2 senses
  1. 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:
     baked potato; french fries, french-fried potatoes, fries; home fries, home-fried potatoes; mashed potato; Uruguay potato
  2. 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
  1. 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
  2. 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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