spud

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

I - noun

1. an edible tuber native to South America;
a staple food of Ireland
• Syn:
potato, white potato, Irish potato, murphy, tater
• Hypernyms:
root vegetable, starches, solanaceous vegetable
• Hyponyms:
baked potato, french fries, french-fried potatoes, fries, chips,
home fries, home-fried potatoes, mashed potato, Uruguay potato
• Part Holonyms:
potato, white potato, white potato vine, Solanum tuberosum
• Part Meronyms:
jacket
2. a sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds
• Syn:
stump spud
• Hypernyms:
hand shovel

II - verb

1. initiate drilling operations, as for petroleum
- The well was spudded in April
• Hypernyms:
bore, drill
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. produce buds, branches, or germinate
- the potatoes sprouted
• Syn:
shoot, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout
• Derivationally related forms:
sprout (for: sprout), sprouting (for: sprout), pullulation (for: pullulate), germ (for: germinate), germination (for: germinate), shoot (for: shoot)
• Hypernyms:
grow
• Verb Group:
germinate
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  stump spud, potato, white potato, Irish potato, murphy, tater, shoot, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout