vanilla

Meaning

Noun

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, slang) Someone who is not into fetishism.
7. (slang, uncountable) An unmodded version of a game.
8. (countable, uncountable) A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.

Adj

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

Synonyms

vanilla extract

run-of-the-mill

basic

cardinal

common

commonplace

elementary

essential

familiar

fiducial

fragrant

fundamental

grassroots

habitual

no-frills

ordinary

primal

primary

regular

rudimentary

trivial

uncomplicated

underlying

uneventful

unremarkable

unsophisticated

unspectacular

usual

vanilla bean

working

vanilla grass

run-of-the-mine

fragrant flower

Vanilla planifolia

sweet grass

vanilla orchid

anonymous

methyl vanillin

basal

Translations

vanille

vainilla

Vanille

vaniglia

baunilha

βανίλια

vanille

vanilya

vanillier

vainilla

vanilla

vainiglia

فانيلا

Vanilla planifolia

Pronounced as (IPA)

/vəˈnɪlə/

Etymology

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

Sentences

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