vanilla

noun vanillas · vanille · nilla

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. Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago.
2. countable The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.

   Similar: vanilla bean

3. uncountable The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.

   Similar: vanilla extract

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.

   Similar: imitation vanilla

6. countable, slang Someone who is not into fetishism.
7. slang, uncountable An unmodded version of a game.

   Similar: stock

8. countable, uncountable A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.
9. countable, derogatory, ethnic, slur, uncountable A white person.

adjective more vanilla · most vanilla · vanille · nilla

1. usually, of flavor Of vanilla. A mass of folders and binders. One, vanilla in colour, catches her eye.
2. colloquial, retronym Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic. vanilla JavaScript
3. Not kinky, not involving BDSM. An uncharacteristically vanilla threesome and non-cute realist rendering - derived paradoxically from tracing drawings rather than photographs.

   Similar: normophilic

4. Plain; conventional; unimaginative. a vanilla rendition of the concerto

Similar: vanillar