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va⋅nil⋅la

  [vuh-nil-uh or, often, -nel-uh]
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–noun
1. any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, esp. V. planifolia, bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food, in perfumery, etc.
2. Also called vanilla bean. the fruit or bean of this orchid.
3. the extract of this fruit.
–adjective
4. containing or flavored with vanilla: vanilla custard.
5. Informal. plain-vanilla.
Origin:
1655–65; < NL < Sp vainilla little pod, equiv. to vain(a) a sheath (< L vāgīna sheath) + -illa dim. suffix (< LL)
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va·nil·la   (və-nĭl'ə)   
n.  

  1. Any of various tropical American vines of the genus Vanilla in the orchid family, especially V. planifolia, cultivated for its long narrow seedpods from which a flavoring agent is obtained.

  2. The seedpod of this plant. Also called vanilla bean.

  3. A flavoring extract prepared from the cured seedpods of this plant or produced synthetically.

adj.  

  1. Flavored with vanilla: vanilla pudding.

  2. Lacking adornments or special features; basic or ordinary: "We went through a period of vanilla cars" (Charles Jordan).


[Obsolete Spanish vainilla, diminutive of vaina, sheath (from the shape of its seedpods), from Latin vāgīna.]
vanilla bean  
n.  See vanilla.
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Slang Dictionary
vanilla

  1. mod.
    plain; dull. (See also beige.) : The entire production was sort of vanilla, but it was okay.
  2. n.
    a Caucasian. : Some vanilla's on the phone—selling something, I guess.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

vanilla 
1662, from Sp. vainilla "vanilla plant," lit. "little pod," dim. of vaina "sheath," from L. vagina "sheath" (see vagina). So called from the shape of the pods. European discovery 1521 by Hernando Cortes' soldiers on reconnaissance in southeastern Mexico. Meaning "conventional, of ordinary sexual preferences" is 1970s, from notion of whiteness and the common choice of vanilla ice cream. Vanillin is from 1868.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: va·nil·la
Pronunciation: v&-'nil-&, -'nel-
Function: noun
1 a : VANILLA BEAN b : a commercially important extract of the vanilla bean that is prepared by soaking comminutedvanilla beans in water and ethyl alcohol and that is used especially as a flavoring (as in pharmaceutical preparations)
2 : any of a genus (Vanilla) of tropical Americanclimbing orchids

Main Entry: vanilla bean
Function: noun
: the long capsular fruit of a vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia) that is an important article of commerce
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vanilla va·nil·la (və-nĭl'ə)
n.

  1. Any of various tropical American vines of the genus Vanilla, especially V. planifolia, cultivated for its long narrow seedpods from which a flavoring agent is obtained.

  2. The seedpod of this plant. Also called vanilla bean.

  3. A flavoring extract prepared from the cured seedpods of this plant or produced synthetically.

adj.
Flavored with vanilla.

vanilla bean n.
See vanilla.

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