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1. Truffle
   A confection made of chocolate (ganache), butter, sugar, and sometimes liqueur shaped into balls and often coated with cocoa. Truffles are made by heating a rich blend of butter, cream, chocolate, and often a flavoring, delicately shaping it, and enrobing it with chocolate couverture.(milk, dark or ...
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2. truffle
   [n] - any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber 2. [n] - edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber 3. [n] - creamy chocolate candy
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3. Truffle
   Rare black or white fungus of the same family as the mushroom. Due to the cost, truffles are used mainly for garnishing.
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4. Truffle
   Often handmade, made from ganache of chocolate mass, cream and a little butter, shaped into a round ball or piped into a peak. Soft, yielding texture. Find out more about gourmet chocolate truffles.
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5. truffle
   Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish colour. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. Aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food. ... <zoology> Truffle worm, the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious to truffle...
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6. truffle
   noun edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber
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7. truffle
   noun any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe
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8. truffle
   noun creamy chocolate candy
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9. Truffle
   • (n.) Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food.
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10. truffle
    edible, subterranean fungus prized as a food delicacy from Classical times. Truffles are in the genus Tuber, order Pezizales (phylum Ascomycota, ... [1 related articles]
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11. truffle
    truffle (trŭf'ul) [Fr.], subterranean edible fungus that forms a mutually beneficial (symbiotic) relationship with the roots of certain trees and plants. The part of the fungus used as food is the ascoma, the fruiting body of the fungus. The best-known truffles are the black, Tuber melanos...
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12. Truffle
    Truffles are subterranean fungi belonging to the family Tuberaceae of the natural order Ascomyceteae. They look similar to potatoes, but their structure is entirely different. When old they become full of brown spores, much like puff balls, but when young they are fleshy in texture. Several species ...
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13. truffle
    Any of a group of underground fungi (see fungus), certain of which are highly valued as edible delicacies; in particular, the species Tuber melanosporum, generally found growing under oak trees. It is native to the Périgord region of France but is cultivated in other areas as well. It is rounded, blackish-brown, exte...
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14. Truffle
    (fungus) A `truffle` () is the fruiting body of an underground mushroom; spore dispersal is accomplished through fungivores, animals that eat fungi. Almost all truffles are ectomycorrhizal and are therefore usually found in close association with trees. There are hundreds of species of truffl...
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