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girolle

girolle noun: chanterelle (mushroom).

Noun

girolle (plural girolles)

  1. chanterelle (mushroom)
    • The dominance of the squeaky-clean white button has given way to a far wider range: brown chestnuts and flat-capped portobellos, and pearly-white oysters, which really do look a bit like the oyster shells they’re named after, carotene-orange girolles, flavour-bomb dried shiitake and porcini, or...2015 November 14, Yotam Ottolenghi, “Shroom for manoeuvre: Yotam Ottolenghi’s mushroom recipes”, in The Guardian

Forms of girolle

pluralgirolles

Origin of girolle

Borrowed from French girolle.

Questions about girolle

What does girolle mean?
Girolle means chanterelle (mushroom).
What part of speech is girolle?
Girolle is a noun.
What is the plural of girolle?
The plural of girolle is girolles.

Words near girolle in the dictionary

  1. giroing
  2. Giroir
  3. Giroirs
  4. Girolamo
  5. Girolamos
  6. girolle
  7. girolles
  8. giromancy
  9. giron
  10. Girona
  11. Gironan

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