vanilla

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English

Alternative forms

• vanille (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina (“pod”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. plain sense

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vəˈnɪlə/
• Rhymes: -ɪlə
• IPA^(key): /vəˈnɛlə/
• Rhymes: -ɛlə

Noun

vanilla (countable and uncountable, plural vanillas)

1. (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.
2. (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.

   Synonym: vanilla bean

3. (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.

   Synonym: vanilla extract

4. (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
5. (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.

   Synonym: imitation vanilla

6. (countable, sexuality, slang) Someone who is not into fetishism.
7. (uncountable, gaming, slang) An unmodded version of a game.

   Synonym: stock

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• flavour extract

Adjective

vanilla (comparative more vanilla, superlative most vanilla)

1. (of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.
2. (colloquial, chiefly computing, retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
3. (sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.

   Synonym: normophilic
4. Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

Synonyms

• vanillar
• See also Thesaurus:bare-bones

Related terms

• vanillin

Translations

See also

• (slang, electronics): jellybean

Icelandic

Etymology

From English vanilla, from Spanish vainilla, diminutive of vaina (“pod”), from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvaːnɪlːa/

Noun

vanilla f (genitive singular vanillu, nominative plural vanillur)

1. (usually singular only, uncountable) vanilla

Declension

Derived terms

• vanilluplanta