vanilla
- 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.
- Noun. (countable) The fruit or bean of this orchid.
- Noun. (uncountable) The extract of this fruit.
- Noun. (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
- Noun. (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
- Adjective. (colloquial) By association with vanilla as the "plain" flavour of ice cream: the standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
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