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Definition: Chanterelle |
ChanterelleNoun1. Widely distributed edible mushroom rich yellow in color with a smooth cap and a pleasant apricot aroma. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Chanterelle \Chan`te*relle"\, noun. [French expression]. (references) |
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Chanterelle Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi Domain: Eukaryota Division: Basidiomycota Class: Homobasidiomycetes Order: Cantharellales Family: Cantharellaceae Genus: Cantharellus Species C. cibarius
C. cinereus
C. cinnabarinus
C. craterellus
C. formosus
C. lateritius
C. lutescens
C. minor
C. pallens
C. persicinus
C. subalbidus
C. tabernensis
C. tubaeformis
C. xanthopus
Cantharellus is a genus with many delicious and popular edible mushrooms. It can only be found in nature, since it's a mycorrhizal edible fungi. This means it forms symbiotic associations with other plants, making it very difficult to cultivate. Caution must be used when identifying chanterelles for consumption; lookalikes, such as the Jack-O-Lantern, can make a person incredibly ill.
Synonyms and common names
;C. cibarius
;C. subalbidus
- yellow chanterelle, chanterelle
;C. formosus
- white chanterelle
;C. tubaeformis
- Pacific golden chanterelle
- funnel chanterelle, yellow foot, winter mushroom
Species
The best known species of this genus is the yellow chanterelle[1], which is orange or yellow, meaty and funnel-shaped. It has forking gills on the underside, running all the way down its stalk, which tapers down seamlessly from the cap. It has a fruity smell and a peppery taste, and is considered an exellent food mushroom.
In California and the Pacific Northwest of USA there is also the white chanterelle[1], which looks like the yellow except for its off-white color. It is more fragile and found in lesser numbers than the yellow chanterelle, but can otherwise be treated as its yellow cousin.
The Pacific golden chanterelle, C. formosus, has recently been recognized as a separate species from the yellow chanterelle. It forms a mycorrhizal association with the Douglas-fir and Sitka spruce forests of the Pacific Northwest. This chanterelle has been designated Oregon's state mushroom, due to its economic value and abundance.
The yellow foot[1] is a yellowish-brown and trumpet-shaped chanterelle found in great numbers late in the mushroom season, thus earning the common name winter mushroom. The cap is convex and sometimes hollow down the middle, and because of this it is also known as funnel chanterelle. The gills are widely separated, and of lighter color than the cap. It grows on moss or rotten wood, and is an excellent food mushroom, especially fried or in soups.
Use in food
Chanterelles in general go well with eggs, chicken, pork and veal, can be used as toppings on pizzas, stewed, marinated, fried in butter, or used as filling for stuffed pancakes. Of course these are just examples, chanterelles can push almost any dish up a notch or two.
Preparation and storage
Since the mushrooms hold a lot of water, a good way of preparing them is to "dry saute" them: after cleaning, slice them up and put them in a pan over medium heat. Wait until they are covered in the water they have released. Now they can be freezed in their own water, or the water can be used in sauces or simply discarded. Fresh chanterelles can generally be stored up to 10 days in the refrigerator.
Notes
The species with the common name black chanterelle[1] (Craterellus cornucopioides), is, as its latin name implies, not of the cantharellus genus, and thus not really a chanterelle. It is sometimes called the trumpet of death, though it is in fact a delicious mushroom, and not poisonous. It is hard to find because of its liking for dark and sheltered places.
Similar Species
The False Chanterelle (Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca) has finer, more orange gills and a darker cap. It is edible, but typically a cullinary dissapointment. The very similar Jack-O-Lantern mushroom (Omphalotus illudens) and its sister species (Omphalotus olivascens) are very poisonous; while they won't kill you, they may leave you questioning whether that would be a better alternative for a few days. They have true gills (unlike chanterelles) which are thinner, have distinct crowns, and generally do not reach up to the edge. Additionally, the Jack-O-Lantern mushroom is bioluminescent.
Use caution
References
Chanterelle is also the name of a commune in the Cantal département in France.
- http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/nathis/mushrooms/chanterelles/ as of 2003-07-28
- http://www.mykoweb.com/cookbook/chanterelle.html as of 2003-07-28
- http://plants.montara.com/mushrooms/MListPages/MFamPages/cantharella.html as of 2003-07-28
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Undef&id=36065&lvl=3&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock as of 2003-07-28
- http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species_index.html#C as of 2003-07-28
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cantharellus."
Synonym: ChanterelleSynonym: chantarelle (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Chanterelle |
| Non-English Usage: "Chanterelle" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (chanterelle, decoy). |
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Books | |
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| "Chanterelle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Chanterelle" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "chanterelle": cinnabar chanterelle ♦ floccose chanterelle. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
chanterelle | 39 |
chanterelle mushroom | 17 |
chanterelle restaurant | 10 |
chanterelle new york | 3 |
banjo chanterelle | 2 |
chanterelle nyc | 2 |
chanterelle sacramento | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "chanterelle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | الإنائية فطر يؤكل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пачи крак. (various references) | |
Chinese | 黄蘑菇. (various references) | |
Czech | nejvyšší struna u houslí. (various references) | |
Danish | kantarel (chantarelle). (various references) | |
Dutch | cantharel (chantarelle), hanekam (mountain ridge), dooierzwam (chantarelle). (various references) | |
Finnish | keltasieni. (various references) | |
French | chanterelle (chantarelle). (various references) | |
German | pfifferling (chantarelle). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rókagomba. (various references) | |
Italian | gallinaccio (chantarelle), galletto (chicken, chockerel, cockerel). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 杏茸 (chanterelle mushroom). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あ"ずたけ (chanterelle mushroom). (various references) | |
Manx | fliughane buigh, capan buigh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anterellechay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cantarelo, cantarela falsa (chantarelle). (various references) | |
Russian | лисичка. (various references) | |
Spanish | cuerda (chord, chorda, cord, guy, lead, line, pull, rope, string, tether), rebozuelo agerole (chantarelle). (various references) | |
Swedish | kantarell. (various references) | |
Turkish | sarı renkli bir tür mantar. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | лисичка. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nấm m"ng g . (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Cantharellus cibarius, Cantharellus friesii. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chanterelle": chanterelles. (additional references) | |
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"Chanterelle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chanderel, Schiantarelli. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-h-l-l-n-r-t" | |
-3 letters: cellaret, crenelle, enthrall, ethereal, lancelet, lateener, leathern. | |
-4 letters: centare, central, chanter, charnel, cheater, chelate, cleaner, crenate, earthen, echelle, enteral, enthral, eternal, haltere, hearten, hectare, hellcat, leacher, leather, lectern, lethean, nacelle, recheat, reclean, reelect, reenact, reteach, teacher, teleran, trachle, tranche, treacle. | |
-5 letters: achene, aether, anther, antler, caller, callet, canter, cantle, careen, carnet, cartel, cellae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-h-l-l-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: chanterelles. | |
+4 letters: hermeneutically. | |
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