vanilla
English
/vəˈnɪlə/, /vəˈnɛlə/
noun
Definitions
- (countable) Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially ), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
- (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
- (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
- (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
- (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
- (countable) Someone who is not into fetishism; a normophile
- (uncountable) An unmodded version of a game
- A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish, Castilian vainilla (little pod, vanilla).
Origin
Spanish
vainilla
Gloss
little pod, vanilla
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ethylvanillin English
- glycovanillin English
- homovanillic English
- isovanillin English
- nonvanilla English
- sulphovanillin English
- vanillafied English
- vanillafy English
- vanillate English
- vanillic English
- vanillin English
- vanillism English
- vāgīna Latin
- vaniglia Italian
- vanille French
- вани́ль Russian
- vaina Spanish, Castilian
- vainilla Spanish, Castilian
- vainillal Spanish, Castilian
- vanilje Norwegian Bokmål
- vanilje Norwegian Nynorsk
- vainilla Catalan, Valencian
- vanilla Icelandic
- วานิลลา Thai
- vanilley Manx
- vanil Azerbaijani
- 雲呢拿 Chinese