Vanilla

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English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA: /vəˈnɪlə/
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Etymology

Spanish vainilla

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Noun

vanilla (uncountable and countable, plural: vanillas)

  1. (countable) Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially V. planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
  2. (Vanilla) (uncountable) The genus of this plant.
  3. (countable) The fruit or bean of this orchid.
  4. (uncountable) The extract of this fruit.
  5. (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
    You can tell that the secret ingredient missing from New CokeTM was vanilla, because certain South American economies collapsed when it was introduced, and miraculously revived when the old formula was used again.
  6. (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, generally that produced from coal tar.
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Synonyms

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Translations

orchid

  • Finnish: vanilja
  • French: [vanille]]

genus

fruit

natural extract

flavour/flavor

artificial extract

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Adjective

vanilla (no comparative or superlative forms)

  1. Of or relating to vanilla.
    vanilla bean
  2. Flavoured/flavored with vanilla or vanilla extract (whether natural or artificial).
    vanilla ice cream'
  3. (colloquial) By association with vanilla as the "plain" flavour of ice cream: the standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
    vanilla suit.
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Translations

of vanilla

  • Finnish: vanilja-
  • French: de vanille

flavoured/flavored with vanilla

standard

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Related terms

fr:vanilla io:vanilla it:vanilla ja:vanilla pl:vanilla pt:vanilla ru:vanilla fi:vanilla zh:vanilla

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