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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024truf•fle /ˈtrʌfəl/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Fungian edible fungus that grows underground.
- Fooda ball-shaped candy of soft chocolate with cocoa.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024truf•fle (truf′əl, tro̅o̅′fəl),USA pronunciation n. - Fungiany of several subterranean, edible, ascomycetous fungi of the genus Tuber.
- Fungiany of various similar fungi of other genera.
- Fooda candy made of soft chocolate, shaped into a ball and dusted with cocoa, or sometimes a three-layered cube of light and dark chocolate.
- an Osco-Umbrian cognate of Latin tūber tuber1
- Late Latin tūfera, *tūfer, probably
- Old Provencal trufa
- Middle French truffle, truffe
- Dutch truffel(e)
- 1585–95
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: truffle /ˈtrʌfəl/ n - Also called: earthnut any of various edible saprotrophic ascomycetous subterranean fungi of the European genus Tuber. They have a tuberous appearance and are regarded as a delicacy
- Also called: rum truffle chiefly Brit a sweet resembling this fungus in shape, flavoured with chocolate or rum
Etymology: 16th Century: from French truffe, from Old Provençal trufa, ultimately from Latin tūber tu•ber1 /ˈtubɚ, ˈtyu-/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Botanya thick, fleshy underground stem, as a potato.
tu•ber•ous, adj. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024tu•ber1 (to̅o̅′bər, tyo̅o̅′-),USA pronunciation n. - Botanya fleshy, usually oblong or rounded thickening or outgrowth, as the potato, of a subterranean stem or shoot, bearing minute scalelike leaves with buds or eyes in their axils from which new plants may arise.
- Anatomya rounded swelling or protuberance;
a tuberosity;
a tubercle.
- Latin tūber bump, swelling. Compare truffle
- 1660–70
- a person or thing that forms, installs, or operates with tubes.
- SportAlso called inner-tuber. a person who participates in the sport of tubing.
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