VANILLA

vanilla

(adjective) plain and without any extras or adornments; “the most common type of bond is the straight or plain vanilla bond”; “the basic car is known as the vanilla version”

vanilla

(adjective) flavored with vanilla extract; “he liked vanilla ice cream”

vanilla

(noun) a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans

vanilla, vanilla extract

(noun) a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans)

vanilla

(noun) any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

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 the vanilla plant.

Synonym: vanilla bean

(uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.

Synonym: vanilla extract

(uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.

(uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.

Synonym: imitation vanilla

(countable, sexuality, slang) Someone who is not into fetishism; a normophile

(uncountable, gaming, slang) An unmodded version of a game

A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.

Adjective

vanilla (comparative more vanilla, superlative most vanilla)

(of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.

(colloquial, mostly, computing, retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.

(sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.

Synonym: normophilic

Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

Synonyms

• vanillar

• See also bare-bones

Source: Wiktionary

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Va*nil"la, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Sp. vainilla, dim. of Sp. vaina a sheath, a pod, L. vagina; because its grains, or seeds, are contained in little pods.]

1. (Bot.)

Definition: A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants natives of tropical America.

2. The long podlike capsules of Vanilla planifolia, and V. claviculata, remarkable for their delicate and agreeable odor, for the volatile, odoriferous oil extracted from them; also, the flavoring extract made from the capsules, extensively used in confectionery, perfumery, etc.

Note: As a medicine, vanilla is supposed to possess powers analogous to valerian, while, at the same time, it is far more grateful. Cuban vanilla, a sweet-scented West Indian composite shrub (Eupatorium Dalea).

– Vanilla bean, the long capsule of the vanilla plant.

– Vanilla grass. Same as Holy grass, under Holy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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