vanilla
Any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
Other meanings
The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
A kind of
- orchid
Related words
- banilla
- plain vanilla
- vanilla leaf
- vanilla bean
- vanilla extract
- imitation vanilla
- nonvanilla
- vanilla slice
- vanillafy
- vanilla essence
- vanillar
- vanilla wafer
Word history
From Spanish "vainilla".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “vanilla” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.