Remove my third letter and I become a pipe that gushes water; keep it, and I am a tender green shoot bursting out of a spring seed. What am I?
A sprout
The word 'SPROUT' (a young plant shoot) minus its third letter 'R' becomes 'SPOUT' (a channel or pipe for discharging water).
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