vanilla
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See also Vanilla
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vanilla (countable and uncountable; plural vanillas)
- (countable) Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
- (countable) The fruit or bean of this orchid.
- (uncountable) The extract of this fruit.
- (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
- You can tell that the secret ingredient missing from New CokeTM was vanilla, because certain South American economies collapsed when it was introduced, and miraculously revived when the old formula was used again.
- (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
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- (bean): vanilla bean
- (extract): vanilla extract
- (artificial extract): imitation vanilla
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orchid
fruit
natural extract
flavour/flavor
artificial extract
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vanilla (not comparable)
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- Of or relating to vanilla.
- vanilla bean
- Flavoured/flavored with vanilla or vanilla extract (whether natural or artificial).
- vanilla ice cream'
- (colloquial) By association with vanilla as the "plain" flavour of ice cream: the standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
- vanilla suit.
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of vanilla
flavoured/flavored with vanilla
standard
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From Spanish vainilla "little pod", equivalent to "vain(a)" meaning "sheath". From the Latin word vagina meaning "sheeth" + -illa which is a diminutive suffix.
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vanilla f.
