truffle
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- 13
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- 15
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Definition of truffle
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
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noun
-
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.”
- (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of chocolate truffle (“creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder”).
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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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