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noun
- (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 Coke<small>TM</small> 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, generally that produced from coal tar.
adjective
- 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.
Etymology: From vainilla
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