Vanilla

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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.
  • n. The seedpod of this plant. Also called vanilla bean.
  • n. A flavoring extract prepared from the cured seedpods of this plant or produced synthetically.
  • adj. Flavored with vanilla: vanilla pudding.
  • adj. Lacking adornments or special features; basic or ordinary: "We went through a period of vanilla cars” ( Charles Jordan).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
  • n. The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
  • n. The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
  • n. The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
  • n. Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
  • adj. By association with vanilla as the "plain" flavour of ice cream: the standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants, natives of tropical America.
  • n. The long podlike capsules of Vanilla planifolia, and Vanilla claviculata, remarkable for their delicate and agreeable odor, for the volatile, odoriferous oil extracted from them; also, the flavoring extract made from the capsules, extensively used in confectionery, perfumery, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A plant of the genus Vanilla (see def. 3), especially one of several species yielding the vanilla of commerce.
  • n. The vanilla-bean or its economic extract.
  • n. [capitalized] [NL. (Plumier, 1703).] A genus of orchids, of the tribe Neottieæ, type of the subtribe Vanilleæ.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans)
  • adj. plain and without any extras or adornments
  • n. a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans
  • n. 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
  • adj. flavored with vanilla extract
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    seasoning    seasoner    flavorer    flavouring    flavoring    flavourer    savour    tang    savor    sapidity   
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