different between chanterelle vs chantarelle

chanterelle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French chanterelle, from New Latin cantharellus, diminutive of Latin cantharus (drinking vessel).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?t?ænt???l/, /??nt????l/

Noun

chanterelle (plural chanterelles)

  1. (mycology) 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.
    • 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. (music) The highest string of the violin or similar instrument.

Synonyms

  • (mushroom): girolle

Derived terms

  • black chanterelle
  • funnel chanterelle

Translations

Further reading

  • chanterelle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /???.t??l/

Etymology 1

From the genus name, New Latin Cantharellus, from Latin cantharus (drinking vessel).

Noun

chanterelle f (plural chanterelles)

  1. (mycology) chanterelle
    Synonym: girolle
Descendants
  • ? English: chanterelle

Etymology 2

chanter +? -elle

Noun

chanterelle f (plural chanterelles)

  1. (music) chanterelle (highest string of the violin or similar instrument)

Further reading

  • “chanterelle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

chanterelle From the web:



chantarelle

English

Noun

chantarelle (plural chantarelles)

  1. Alternative spelling of chanterelle

chantarelle From the web:

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