Vanilla

Quick meaning: Vanilla is a noun meaning (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.

Meaning

(countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
2. (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
3. (countable, sexuality, slang) Someone who is not into fetishism.
4. (uncountable, gaming, slang) An unmodded version of a game.
5. A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.
6. (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.
7. (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.

Example Sentences

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Sebastian could never do that, be in a marriage with a vanilla woman.

A mass of folders and binders. One, vanilla in colour, catches her eye.

Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago.

Word Forms

• vanillas
• vanille

Synonyms for vanilla

Depending on context, synonyms include vanillar, stock, normophilic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include herb, cracker, cream, beer, classical, classic.

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