Also chantarelle. [a. Fr. chanterelle: in mod.L. cantharellus, dim. of cantharus drinking-vessel.] A yellow kind of edible fungus (Cantharellus cibarius).
1775. J. Lightfoot, Flora Scot. (1777), II. 1008. Yellow Agaric or Chanterelle.
1794. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxxii. 501. The Chanterelle, or little Yellow Mushroom, so common in the fairy rings on dry pastures.
1859. All Y. Round, No. 15. 342. The beautiful yellow chantarelle, growing by the bushel.
1880. M. Collins, Th. in Garden, II. 12. Myriads of mushrooms, morels, truffles, chantarelles, champignons are wasted … because the poor do not understand their use.
