Definition of "vanilla"
- noun
Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
- adjective
By association with vanilla as the "plain" flavour of ice cream: the standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
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