vanilla

Meanings

Plural: vanillas

Noun

• 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
• a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans)
• a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans
• Any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
• The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
• The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
• The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
• Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
• Someone who is not into fetishism.
• An unmodded version of a game.
• A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.

Adjective

• flavored with vanilla extract
  • "he liked vanilla ice cream"

Adjective Satellite

• 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"

Adj

• Of vanilla.
• Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
• Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
• Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

Synonyms

imitation vanilla, normophilic, stock, vanilla bean, vanilla extract, vanillar

Related Words

flavour extract, jellybean, vanillin

Anagrams of vanilla