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vanilla

noun adjective

Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.

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Word length
7
Starts with
V
Ends with
A
Contains
AN
Scrabble score
10
Database source
OEWN 2025 Core

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/vəˈnɛlə/ /vəˈnɛlə/

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noun

  1. Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.

  2. The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.

  3. The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.

  4. 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.”

  5. Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.

  6. (sexuality) Someone who is not into fetishism; a normophile

  7. An unmodded version of a game

  8. A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.

adjective

  1. (of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.

  2. (retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.

    “vanilla JavaScript”

  3. (sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.

  4. Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

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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.
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