vanillanoun/vəˈnɪl.ə/

• 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.

  • Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago.
• 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.

• 6

  slanglifestylesexualitySomeone who is not into fetishism.

• 7

  slanggamesgamingAn unmodded version of a game.

• 8

  A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.

vanillaadj/vəˈnɪl.ə/

• 1

  Of vanilla.

  • A mass of folders and binders. One, vanilla in colour, catches her eye.
• 2

  computingengineeringmathematicsStandard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.

  • vanilla JavaScript
  • BBCFiles is a BBC file converter that converts between some of the various types of files used by BBC emulators on Acorn & PC formats. It supports 6502Em style applications & scripts, /ssd dfs disc images (supporting watford double catalogue), vanilla directories, /zip of bbc files with /inf files (with limitations) and directory of bbc files with /inf files.
• 3

  lifestylesexualityNot kinky, not involving BDSM.

  • An uncharacteristically vanilla threesome and non-cute realist rendering - derived paradoxically from tracing drawings rather than photographs.
  • While Dominick was more of a vanilla kind of a guy himself, he wasn't a total dunce when it came to the kinkier sides of things.
• 4

  Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

  • a vanilla rendition of the concerto
  • The further right or left you go, the more likely you are to eventually come around to hating Jews. On the left, this is plain to see. From the Corbyn-era trend to attack Israel for all the world's sins, to the self-hating asaJews that tweeted enthusiastically about October 7 being a 'day of celebration' to previously vanilla comedian Reginald Hunter retweeting posts about the evils of the Talmud.