truffle
noun /ˈtrʌfl/
/ˈtrʌfl/
- an expensive type of fungus that grows underground, used in cooking
- a soft round sweet made of chocolateTopics Foodc2
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.