Usually means: Flavor derived from orchid pods.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. vanilla: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Vanilla, vanilla, vanilla: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. vanilla: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. vanilla: Collins English Dictionary
  5. vanilla: Vocabulary.com
  6. Vanilla, vanilla: Wordnik
  7. vanilla: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. vanilla: Wiktionary
  9. vanilla: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. vanilla: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. vanilla: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. vanilla: Dictionary.com
  13. vanilla: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. vanilla: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Vanilla (Gackt song), Vanilla (band), Vanilla (color), Vanilla (computing), Vanilla (disambiguation), Vanilla (forum), Vanilla (genus), Vanilla: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Vanilla: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. vanilla: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. vanilla: Rhymezone
  19. vanilla: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. vanilla: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. vanilla: Free Dictionary
  22. vanilla: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. vanilla: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. vanilla: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Encyclopedia of Spices (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vanilla (disambiguation): Financial dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. vanilla: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. vanilla: Netlingo
  3. Vanilla, vanilla: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. Vanilla (disambiguation), vanilla: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. vanilla: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Vanilla: Bar-Nones Dictionary of Drinking
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Vanilla (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. vanilla, vanilla: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. vanilla: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. vanilla: ESL Slang page

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See vanillas as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (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.
noun:  (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
noun:  (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
noun:  (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
noun:  (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
noun:  (countable, sexuality, slang) Someone who is not into fetishism.
noun:  (uncountable, gaming, slang) An unmodded version of a game.
noun:  A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.
adjective:  (of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.
adjective:  (colloquial, chiefly computing, retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
adjective:  (sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
adjective:  Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

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