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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.

Definition 2024


truffle

truffle

English

Noun

truffle (plural truffles)

  1. Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut.
  2. Abbreviation of chocolate truffle. (A creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder.)

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  1. Etymology in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm: im Laufe des 18. Jahrhunderts entlehnt aus Französischem neben gewöhnlichem truffe stehendem truffle
  2. Etymology in ODS: "eng. truffle; fra fr. trufle (truffe)"
  3. Le Robert pour tous, Dictionnaire de la langue française, Janvier 2004, p. 1144, truffe

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