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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
va•nil•la /vəˈnɪlə/USA pronunciation   n., pl. -las. 
  1. Plant Biology[countable] a tropical climbing orchid that has podlike fruit.
  2. Plant Biology[countable] Also called vaˈnil•la ˌbean. the fruit or bean of this orchid.
  3. the juice squeezed or pressed out of this fruit, used in flavoring food and in perfumes:[uncountable]ice cream made with vanilla.

adj. 
  1. containing or flavored with vanilla.
  2. ordinary;
    commonplace.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
va•nil•la  (və nil′ə or, often, -nel′ə),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Plant Biologyany tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, esp. V. planifolia, bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food, in perfumery, etc.
  2. Plant BiologyAlso called vanil′la bean′. the fruit or bean of this orchid.
  3. the extract of this fruit.

adj. 
  1. containing or flavored with vanilla:vanilla custard.
  2. Informal Termsplain-vanilla.
  • Late Latin)
  • Latin vāgīna sheath) + -illa diminutive suffix (
  • Spanish vainilla little pod, equivalent. to vain(a) a sheath (
  • Neo-Latin
  • 1655–65

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
vanilla / vəˈnɪlə/
  1. any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, esp V. plonifolia, having spikes of large fragrant greenish-yellow flowers and long fleshy pods containing the seeds (beans)
  2. the pod or bean of certain of these plants, used to flavour food, etc
  3. a flavouring extract prepared from vanilla beans and used in cooking
  1. flavoured with or as if with vanilla: vanilla ice cream
  2. ordinary or conventional: a vanilla kind of guy
Etymology: 17th Century: from New Latin, from Spanish vainilla pod, from vaina a sheath, from Latin vāgīna sheath
'vanilla extract' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
butterscotch - crème de violette - extract

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