Nouns

(n)potato, white potato, Irish potato, murphy, spud, tateran edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland
(n)spud, stump spuda sharp hand shovel for digging out roots and weeds

Verbs

(v)spudinitiate drilling operations, as for petroleum“The well was spudded in April”
(v)shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sproutproduce buds, branches, or germinate“the potatoes sprouted”