chanterelle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French chanterelle, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin cantharellus, diminutive of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin cantharus (“drinking vessel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʃæntəɹɛl/, /ʃɒntəˈɹɛl/

Noun

chanterelle (plural chanterelles)

1. A widely distributed edible mushroom, Cantharellus cibarius, being yellow and trumpet-shaped; or any similar mushroom of the genera Cantharellus, or , not all of which are edible.
   • 1979, Angela Carter, ‘The Erl-King’, The Bloody Chamber, Vintage 2006, p. 98:

     Even the homely wood blewits, that you cook like tripe, with milk and onions, and the egg-yolk yellow chanterelle with its fan-vaulting and faint smell of apricots, all spring up overnight like bubbles of earth, unsustained by nature, existing in a void.

2. The highest string of the violin or similar instrument.

Derived terms

• black chanterelle
• funnel chanterelle

Translations

Cantharellus cibarius

• Bavarian: oaschwammerl
• Bulgarian: пачи крак (pači krak)
• Catalan: rossinyol (ca) m
• Czech: liška obecná (cs) f
• Danish: kantarel
• Dutch: cantharel (nl) m, hanenkam (nl) m
• Esperanto: kantarelo
• Estonian: harilik kukeseen
• Faroese: bikarsoppur m
• Finnish: kantarelli (fi), keltavahvero (fi)
• French: girolle (fr) f
• Galician: cantarelo (gl) m
• German: Pfifferling (de) m, Eierschwammerl (de) n
• Hungarian: sárga rókagomba
• Icelandic: kantarella f
• Irish: cantarnaid f
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• Italian: finferlo (it) m, finferla f, galletto (it) m, cantarello giallo m
• Japanese: 杏茸 (anzutake)
• Latvian: gailene f
• Lithuanian: voveraitė f
• Lombard: finferl m, gallett m
• Norwegian: kantarell (no) m
• Piedmontese: garitola f
• Polish: pieprznik (pl) m
• Portuguese: cantarelo m, cantarela (pt) f
• Russian: лиси́чка (ru) f (lisíčka)
• Slovak: kuriatko n
• Slovene: lisička (sl) f
• Spanish: chantarela f, rebozuelo m
• Swedish: kantarell (sv) c
• Ukrainian: лиси́чка f (lysýčka)
• Venetian: fìnferlo (vec) m