(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.

(of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla. / (colloquial, chiefly computing, retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic. / (sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM. / Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

plural of vanilla

Archaic form of vanillism.

Flavoured with vanilla

The seedpod of any plant in the Vanilla genus, (family: orchid) especially Vanilla planifolia.

Synthetically produced vanillin, used in place of vanilla extract from vanilla beans.

A liquid, technically a tincture, used in cooking, prepared by soaking vanilla beans in alcohol.

(UK, Australia) A snack similar to a mille-feuille, consisting of a layer of vanilla custard or cream between two layers of pastry.

plural of vanilla bean