truffle

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut.
    — In ancient times, the Romans imported truffles, credited with marked aphrodisiac virtue, from Libya as well as Greece.
  2. Ellipsis of chocolate truffle (“creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder”). abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis

词形变化

truffles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
black truffle Chinese truffle chocolate truffle corn truffle desert truffle false truffle magic truffle pecan truffle truffle butter truffled truffle hog truffle hunter truffle hunting trufflelike truffle oil truffle pig truffler truffle shuffle truffley truffling truffly white truffle

词源

Borrowed from French trufle, a variant of truffe (whence also Danish and Norwegian trøffel, Swedish tryffel, German Trüffel), from Old Occitan trufa, a metathesis of Late Latin tufera (plural), from Latin tūber (“truffle”).
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