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Definition vanilla

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina (“pod”).

Noun

vanilla (countable and uncountable, plural vanillas)

1. (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.
2. (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
3. (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
4. (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
5. (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
6. (countable, sexuality, slang) Someone who is not into fetishism; a normophile
7. A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.

Adjective

vanilla (comparative more vanilla, superlative most vanilla)

1. (of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.
2. (colloquial, chiefly computing, retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
3. (sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
4. Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

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