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Word: vanilla (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

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

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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 Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
  • uncountable The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
  • uncountable The extract of this fruit.

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