chanterelle

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To an unpracticed eye, a poisonous jack o 'lantern can look like a chanterelle.

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  1. noun An edible mushroom (Cantharellus cibarius) that is yellow to orange in color, trumpet-shaped, and sometimes fragrant.
  2. noun Any of various similar or related mushrooms of the genera Cantharellus, Polyozellus, and Gomphus, several of which are inedible or poisonous.

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  • She sat in one of his chanterelle-shaped designer chairs, and they chatted. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • It's probably best not to come too hungry: hazelnut-dusted chanterelle ravioli are delicious, but there are only two of them in an order, and a portion of the mustardy hand-chopped steak tartare is small enough to qualify as an hors d'oeuvre. —  LA Weekly | Complete Issue
  • Belgian Stew with boar, chanterelle and Westvleteren 12 —  HomeMadeS
  • In New York's northern Catskills, Beyfuss, who works at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Agroforestry Resource Center, left the woods on a recent tour with a baseball cap full of black trumpets and a plump chanterelle. —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
  • To an unpracticed eye, a poisonous jack o 'lantern can look like a chanterelle. —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
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  1. French, from New Latin cantharella, feminine diminutive of Latin cantharus, cup (from its shape), from Greek kantharos.

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  1. from French chanterelle, a treble string, the first string, a decoy-bird (later English chantrel), also a mushroom, in Old French also a treble bell, a small bell for a chime (whence, in ref. to the shape, the later application to a mushroom) (= Spanish cantarela, treble string, a mushroom, = Italian cantarella, a treble string, a young frog, a bird-call (Florio), now a call-bird). from chanter, sing: see chant, v. See Cantharellus.
 

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