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Word: vanilla
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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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