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The correct spelling is vanilla.
How to pronounce vanilla
IPA: /vəˈnɛlə/
Say it like: Van-ill-a
The correct spelling is vanilla. Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes. For example: "You can tell that the secret ingredient missing from New CokeTM was vanilla, because certain South American economies collapsed when it was introduced, and miraculously revived when the old formula was used again."
Usage Examples
“You can tell that the secret ingredient missing from New CokeTM was vanilla, because certain South American economies collapsed when it was introduced, and miraculously revived when the old formula was used again.”
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Meanings
noun
- 1.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.The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
- 3.The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
- 4.The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
- 5.Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
adjective
- 1.(of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.
- 2.(retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
- 3.(sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
- 4.Plain; conventional; unimaginative.
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