chanterelle

noun

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.”

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.”