truffle
/ˈtrʌfl/noun
1
- a strong-smelling underground fungus that resembles an irregular, rough-skinned potato, growing chiefly in broad-leaved woodland on calcareous soils. It is considered a culinary delicacy and found, especially in France, with the aid of trained dogs or pigs.块菌, 块菰。
1.1
- Family Tuberaceae, subdivision Ascomycotina: Tuber and other genera.块菌科, 子囊菌亚门：块菌属及其他属。
2
- a soft sweet made of a chocolate mixture, typically flavoured with rum and covered with cocoa块菌形巧克力糖。
词源
late 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.