What's the difference between earthnut and truffle?

Earthnut


Definition:

  • (n.) A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground
  • (n.) The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum.
  • (n.) The peanut. See Peanut.

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Truffle


Definition:

  • (n.) Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
  • (2) The 32 dead souls ringing the Dr Strangelove war room of the NFL ownership meeting interrupt their Randroid tongue-bathing only to squeal like scalded truffle pigs at the thought of any power devolving to the actual people whose ability, knowledge and gameplay make the NFL worth watching in the first place.
  • (3) Buzet , a hilltop village near the Slovenia border, celebrates its truffles in November.
  • (4) I don't mean extraordinary in a Michelin-starred look-at-these-truffled-potatoes kind of way (though she has two Michelin stars: one for the Spotted Pig in Greenwich , the other for the Breslin, in the Ace Hotel in Midtown).
  • (5) I’d recommend the black angus fillet with this amazing caramel soy sauce and the lobster with white truffle aioli, washed down with a Carousel – a cocktail served with alcoholic cotton candy.
  • (6) The brutal peaks of the Monte Rosa massif occasionally appear through the clouds while we eat our picnic of bread, ham and pickles, bought from a Swiss supermarket for £12 that morning, which seems a rip-off when we go for a beer in the cafe at the top of the cable car from Macugnaga, and see truffle pasta on the menu for €7.
  • (7) There, he ate a "wide, tender" circle of celeriac paved with chestnut slices, crisply gratinéed, set in a puddle of truffle sauce – delicious, but simple.
  • (8) The French president "eats everything" except caviar, truffles and lobster, and doesn't like cabbage, artichokes or asparagus much, according to a former chef who spent 40 years cooking for six French heads of state from Georges Pompidou to the incumbent, François Hollande .
  • (9) Remember what your grandfather used to say: 'The French, they eat black truffle!
  • (10) Photograph: Alamy For good measure you can bike along its lanes, canoe on its rivers and enjoy the area's confit du canard , Bergerac wines, chèvre, walnut oil and truffles.
  • (11) Come autumn, there will be prized truffles and mushrooms too.
  • (12) 1 tbsp honey ⅛ tsp truffle oil 1 radicchio, trimmed and cut lengthways into quarters 1½ tbsp olive oil Salt and black pepper 4 1.5cm-thick slices sourdough 100g taleggio (or mature brie), torn into 1cm pieces 40g parmesan, finely grated 2 tsp picked thyme leaves Put the honey and truffle oil in a small saucepan, warm through gently, just to combine, then take off the heat and set aside.
  • (13) Fortnum & Mason The luxury department store group posted 16% like-for-like sales growth for the five weeks to 1 January, as shoppers stocked up on tea, hampers, caviar, smoked salmon and white truffles.
  • (14) The tyrosinase activity is on in the young ascocarps (in the peridium, hypothecium, and fertile veins) and off in the ripe ones, thus it appears correlated with the age and differentiation of the sporogenic hyphae that arise from the hypothecium; a similar correlation has been previously described in Neurospora crassa, which is an ascomycete as well as the truffles.
  • (15) And we'll live on ice cream and blueberry truffles and pancakes dripping with molasses, washed down with tequila slammers and absinthe.
  • (16) Comparisons of mitochondrial DNA now demonstrate a surprisingly close relationship between species of false-truffles in the genus Rhizopogon (Hymenogastraceae) and the mushroom genus Suillus (Boletaceae).
  • (17) Admission 35 kn Buzet, Croatia The architecture in medieval Buzet, in the Istrian peninsula, is a reminder of the days the Venetian empire ruled this town, and there are some super views overlooking the Mirna River, but most folk come for the truffles.
  • (18) Here, finally, are salads with more than three ingredients, plus savoury crêpes, pizzas, imaginative stuff like carpaccio of squash, an apple ravioli, and dishes using truffles or ginger and almonds.
  • (19) The striking morphological differences separating all Suillus species from Rhizopogon imply an acceleration in the rate of morphological change relative to molecular change during the evolution of these false-truffles from their mushroom ancestors.
  • (20) THE false-truffles (Hymenogastrales) are a group of basidomycetous fungi that produce underground truffle-like basidiocarps.