Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The truffle, Tuber cibarium, which grows in the soil, and produces its spores within tuber-like bodies.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various highly prized edible subterranean fungi of the genus Tuber; grow naturally in southwestern Europe
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Examples
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Ladies did not disdain those pagan ironed times of the firs; city (called after the ugliest Danadune) when a frond was a friend inneed to carry, as earwigs do their dead, their soil to the earth-ball where indeeth we shall calm decline, our legacy unknown.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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The upper part of the earth-ball should be level or slightly deeper than the edge of the hole.
Chapter 7 1992
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Be sure not to break the earth-ball when setting the seedling into the planting hole.
Chapter 7 1992
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Hebrew cubit, is _exactly_ one ten-millionth (1-10,000,000th) of the earth's semi-axis of rotation; and _that is_ the very best mode of reference to the earth-ball as a whole, for a linear standard through all time, that the highest science of the existing age of the world has yet struck out or can imagine.
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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Last week, Pierce drove down to Pryor, Okla., to pick up decorations for the show, including a 7-foot glowing earth-ball which will serve as the show's centerpiece, hanging from the ceiling like a chandelier.
LJWorld.com stories: News < 2010
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Last week, Pierce drove down to Pryor, Okla., to pick up decorations for the show, including a 7-foot glowing earth-ball which will serve as the show's centerpiece, hanging from the ceiling like a chandelier.
LJWorld.com stories: News < 2010
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Last week, Pierce drove down to Pryor, Okla., to pick up decorations for the show, including a 7-foot glowing earth-ball which will serve as the show's centerpiece, hanging from the ceiling like a chandelier.
LJWorld.com stories: News < 2010
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Last week, Pierce drove down to Pryor, Okla., to pick up decorations for the show, including a 7-foot glowing earth-ball which will serve as the show's centerpiece, hanging from the ceiling like a chandelier.
LJWorld.com stories: News < 2010
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We’ll forget that we’re all, as you say, the sons of Adam, and are placed on this earth-ball but for a very brief period, in which it would certainly be to our advantage to love our neighbours as ourselves.
The Way Home 2003
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