ALL meanings of vanilla
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V v - noun vanilla any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, especially V. planifolia, bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food, in perfumery, etc. 1
- noun vanilla Also called vanilla bean. the fruit or bean of this orchid. 1
- noun vanilla the extract of this fruit. 1
- adjective vanilla containing or flavored with vanilla: vanilla custard. 1
- adjective vanilla Informal. plain-vanilla. 1
- noun vanilla flavouring 1
- adjective vanilla flavored with vanilla 1
- adjective vanilla cream-colored 1
- adjective vanilla conventional 1
- noun vanilla plant, bean 1
- noun vanilla (Countable 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. 0
- noun vanilla (Countable Noun) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant. 0
- noun vanilla (Uncountable Noun) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant. 0
- noun vanilla (Uncountable Noun) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract. 0
- noun vanilla (Uncountable Noun) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals. 0
- adjective vanilla (of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla. 0
- adjective vanilla (Colloquial) (chiefly computing) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic. 0
- adjective vanilla (sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM. 0
- adjective vanilla Plain; conventional; unimaginative. 0
- uncountable noun vanilla Vanilla is a flavouring used in ice cream and other sweet food. 0
- adjective vanilla If you describe a person or thing as vanilla, you mean that they are ordinary, with no special or extra features. 0
- noun vanilla any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, esp V. plonifolia, having spikes of large fragrant greenish-yellow flowers and long fleshy pods containing the seeds (beans) 0
- noun vanilla the pod or bean of certain of these plants, used to flavour food, etc 0
- noun vanilla a flavouring extract prepared from vanilla beans and used in cooking 0
- adjective vanilla flavoured with or as if with vanilla 0
- adjective vanilla ordinary or conventional 0
- noun vanilla any of a genus (Vanilla) of climbing tropical American orchids with fragrant, greenish-yellow flowers 0
- noun vanilla the podlike, immature capsule (vanilla bean) of some of these plants 0
- noun vanilla an extract of these capsules, used as a flavoring in cooking, confections, etc. 0
- adjective vanilla of or flavored with vanilla 0
- adjective vanilla bland, plain, or basic 0