vanilla

Significado

Noun

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

Adj

1. Of vanilla.
2. (colloquial) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
3. Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
4. Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/vəˈnɪlə/

Etimoloxía

Borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina (“pod”). "plain" senses derive from the perceived plainness of vanilla ice cream.

Oracións

No wonder this vanilla yogurt tastes disgusting: Its eat-by date was last year .