chanterelles

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, Polyozellus or Gomphus, not all of which are edible.
   • 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.1979, Angela Carter, ‘The Erl-King’, The Bloody Chamber, Vintage, published 2006, page 98

   Synonyms:

   girolle

2. The highest string of the violin or similar instrument.
   • There were hushed moments of complete beauty when the melody moved out and hung above the chanterelle like a hummingbird poised over a flower.2003, Paul Bowles, edited by Timothy Mangan and Irene Herrmann, Paul Bowles on Music, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 123