vanilla
Vanilla is the flavor for food — such as ice cream — that contains extract from the vanilla plant. This word also describes things that are boring or plain.
If something is called vanilla — such as coffee or a milkshake — it’s usually flavored with vanilla extract or the seeds from a vanilla pod. Vanilla is the most common flavor of ice cream. This word has another, slightly insulting, meaning: a vanilla movie is plain and kind of boring. A vanilla song is on the blah side. Maybe it’s because vanilla food tends to be white and plain that we use this word for other things that are bland.
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any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers
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types:
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Vanilla planifolia, vanilla orchid
a climbing orchid bearing a podlike fruit yielding vanilla beans; widely cultivated from Florida southward throughout tropical America
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type of:
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orchid, orchidaceous plant
any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors
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Vanilla planifolia, vanilla orchid
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a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans)
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synonyms:
vanilla extract -
a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans
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flavored with vanilla extract
“he liked
vanilla ice cream” -
plain and without any extras or adornments
“the most common type of bond is the straight or plain
vanilla bond”“the basic car is known as the
vanilla version”-
Synonyms:
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plain
not elaborate or elaborated; simple
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plain