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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:

Nouns denoting plants

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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