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Webster 1913 Edition

Truffle

Truf′fle

(?; 277)
,
Noun.
[OF.
trufle
, F.
truffe
; akin to Sp.
trufa
,
tartufo
; of uncertain origin; perhaps from L.
tuber
a tumor, knob, truffle. Cf.
Tuber
,
Trifle
.]
Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (
Tuber melanosporum
) and the English truffle (
Tuber aestivum
) are much esteemed as articles of food.
Truffle worm
(Zool.)
,
the larva of a fly of the genus
Leiodes
, injurious to truffles.

Webster 1828 Edition

Truffle

TRUF'FLE

,
Noun.
A subterraneous vegetable production, or a kind of mushroom, of a fleshy fungous structure and roundish figure; an esculent substance, much esteemed. It is of the genus Tuber.

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