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prettygoodwordtruffle (TRUHF-uhl, TROO-fuhl) - n., any of various edible, fleshy, irregularly rounded ascomycetous fungi, chiefly of the genus Tuber, valued as a delicacy; a candy made of chocolate, butter, sugar, and sometimes liqueur shaped into balls and often coated with cocoa.
This is totally not a holdover from mushroom week, because it's not a mushroom but part of a totally different phylum of fungus. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. It's also my story that I've never heard that second pronunciation, ever. The first kind of truffle, which also encompasses many other genera, grow underground on or near the roots of trees, with which the truffle has a symbiotic relationship, exchanging nutrients for carbohydrates. The name dates to around 1590, from Dutch truffel(e), from Middle French truffe, from Old Provençal trufa, from Late Latin tūfera or Vulgar Latin *tufera, plural forms derived from Latin tūber, lump -- and they are, indeed, lumpish:
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---L.
This is totally not a holdover from mushroom week, because it's not a mushroom but part of a totally different phylum of fungus. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. It's also my story that I've never heard that second pronunciation, ever. The first kind of truffle, which also encompasses many other genera, grow underground on or near the roots of trees, with which the truffle has a symbiotic relationship, exchanging nutrients for carbohydrates. The name dates to around 1590, from Dutch truffel(e), from Middle French truffe, from Old Provençal trufa, from Late Latin tūfera or Vulgar Latin *tufera, plural forms derived from Latin tūber, lump -- and they are, indeed, lumpish:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
---L.
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