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Definition of truffle noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

truffle

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/ˈtrʌfl/
 
/ˈtrʌfl/
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  1. an expensive type of fungus that grows underground, used in cooking
  2. a soft round sweet made of chocolateTopics Foodc2
    3. Word Originlate 16th cent.: probably via Dutch from obsolete French truffle, perhaps based on Latin tubera, plural of tuber ‘hump, swelling’. Sense (2) dates from the 1920s.
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