French truffle

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• Truffle — Truf fle (?; 277), n. [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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Truffle worm — Truffle Truf fle (?; 277), n. [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… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• truffle — [16] English acquired truffle, probably via Dutch truffel, from early modern French truffle, a derivative of Old French truffe (which survives as the modern French term for the fungus). This in turn came via Provençal trufa from a Vulgar Latin… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• truffle — [16] English acquired truffle, probably via Dutch truffel, from early modern French truffle, a derivative of Old French truffe (which survives as the modern French term for the fungus). This in turn came via Provençal trufa from a Vulgar Latin… …   Word origins

• truffle — ► NOUN 1) an underground fungus that resembles a rough skinned potato, eaten as a delicacy. 2) a soft chocolate sweet. ► VERB (as noun truffling) ▪ hunting for truffles. ORIGIN obsolete French, perhaps from Latin tuber hump, swelling …   English terms dictionary

• Truffle (fungus) — A truffle (  /ˈtrʌ …   Wikipedia

• truffle — truffled, adj. /truf euhl, trooh feuhl/, n. 1. any of several subterranean, edible, ascomycetous fungi of the genus Tuber. 2. any of various similar fungi of other genera. 3. a candy made of soft chocolate, shaped into a ball and dusted with… …   Universalium

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• truffle — noun Etymology: modification of Middle French truffe, from Old Occitan trufa, from Vulgar Latin *tufera; akin to Latin tuber swelling, truffle more at tuber Date: 1591 1. a. the dark or light edible subterranean fruiting body of several European… …   New Collegiate Dictionary