black chanterelle

noun

: black trumpet

… the pan-seared chicken livers in puff pastry with black chanterelles and sage are to die for.

—Jennifer Moses, Bon Appétit, August 1999

… and black chanterelles, the velvety black funnel-shaped mushrooms that are also known as black trumpets or trumpets of death.

—Tara Duggan, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Feb. 2007

Word History

First Known Use

1980, in the meaning defined above

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