Other forms: truffles
A truffle is a rare underground fungus prized in cooking. Shave the truffle, a white truffle, truffle oil.
It grows on tree roots and cannot be farmed reliably, which is why dogs and pigs are trained to smell it out and why the price is what it is. Most truffle oil contains no truffle at all, only a synthetic compound. A chocolate truffle is named for the shape.
1nountruffleA rare underground fungus prized in cooking.
“The chef shaved thin slices of black truffle over the pasta.”
truffle is a fungus.
Old Occitan trufa comes from a Latin word for a tuber, altered along the way.
Proto-Indo-European
*tewh₂-
Latin
tufera
Old Occitan
trufa
French
trufle
English, today
truffle
French trufle, a variant of truffe (whence also Danish and Norwegian trøffel, Swedish tryffel, German Trüffel), from Old Occitan trufa, a metathesis of Latin tufera, from Latin tūber (“truffle”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA