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TRUFFLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Creamy chocolate candy
Synonyms:
chocolate truffle; truffle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("truffle" is a kind of...):
candy; confect (a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber
Synonyms:
earthnut; truffle
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("truffle" is a kind of...):
veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe
Synonyms:
earth-ball; earthnut; truffle
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("truffle" is a kind of...):
fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)
Holonyms ("truffle" is a member of...):
genus Tuber; Tuber (type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles)
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