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Truffle

//ˈtɹʌf.l̩// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut.

    "In ancient times, the Romans imported truffles, credited with marked aphrodisiac virtue, from Libya as well as Greece."

  2. 2
    creamy chocolate candy wordnet
  3. 3
    Ellipsis of chocolate truffle (“creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder”). abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
  4. 4
    edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber wordnet
  5. 5
    any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from French trufle, a variant of truffe (whence also Danish and Norwegian trøffel, Swedish tryffel, German Trüffel), from Old Occitan trufa, a metathesis of Late Latin tufera (plural), from Latin tūber (“truffle”).

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