vanilla

Meanings

Noun

  • Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia (species)), 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.
  • Someone who is not into fetishism.
  • An unmodded version of a game
  • A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.

Adjective

Origin

  • Borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina.

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