any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe
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edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber
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creamy chocolate candy
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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 color. The French truffle ({Tuber melanosporum}) and the English truffle ({Tuber [ae]stivum}) are much esteemed as articles of food.
{Truffle worm} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a fly of the genus {Leiodes}, injurious to truffles.
Without the truffle juice, a 10-ounce bottle of the water costs 50 cents.
At a preview luncheon Monday, Banchet showed off the mille feuille of duck liver with artichoke, truffle and toast brioche he will create in October.
The most anxious was Japan's Minoru Sonehara who had never seen a hare before. Over dinner the chefs were given a list of rather prosaic ingredients: carrots, red cabbage and cauliflower - nothing as exotic as a wild mushroom or a small truffle.
He debunks the mystique of truffle hunting and he tells you everything worth knowing about pastrami down to its post-Ottoman etymology (RD2 is very good on pastrami also).
See's Candy Shops, a San Francisco-based chain whose logo is a grandmotherly white-haired woman added a truffle line last year and plans to expand it.