truffle
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truffle
any of various edible saprophytic ascomycete subterranean fungi of the order Tuberales. Truffles are an expensive table delicacy.Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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Which nut is also known as a monkey nut or
earthnut?
Peanuts (Arachis hypogaea L.), also called groundnuts or
earthnuts, is known as "The king of oilseeds".
the little nut-shaped bulbous roots of which, called also '
earthnuts,' are liked by both pigs and children." (25) There is another reason as to why sukara-maddava cannot mean "pork." Cunda had invited the Buddha to his house.
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