truf·fle
noun/ˈtrʌfl/
/ˈtrʌfl/
- an expensive type of fungus that grows underground, used in cooking
块菌（生长于地下，可食用，价格昂贵） - a soft round sweet made of chocolate
圆形巧克力软糖
Word Originlate 16th cent.: probably via Dutch from obsolete French truffle, perhaps based on Latin tubera, plural of tuber ‘hump, swelling’. Sense (2) dates from the 1920s.