From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishvanillava‧nil‧la1 /vəˈnɪlə/ ●●○ noun [uncountable] DFHBPa substance used to give a special taste to ice cream, cakes etc, made from the beans of a tropical plant
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vanilla• Add eggs and vanilla and stir in other ingredients.• Flavour with grated lemon rind and vanilla.• The stench from the carcass filled the Chamber; a pungent mixture of sewage and vanilla.• Combine vanilla and next 3 ingredients and add flour mixture stirring until well-blended.vanillavanilla2 ●●○ adjective 1 CThaving the taste of vanilla vanilla ice cream2 (also plain-vanilla) plain, ordinary, or uninteresting There are no plans for an inexpensive vanilla version of the software.Examples from the Corpus
vanilla• vanilla ice creamOrigin vanilla1 (1600-1700) Spanish vainilla, from vaina “cover for a blade”, from Latin vagina; → VAGINA 