A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus
noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central and South America; --
called also cucujo. The name is also applied to other species. See
Firefly.
Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. æstivum) are much esteemed as artic...