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vanilja — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • vanilla noun The extract or flavoring made from the pods of a tropical climbing orchid, used widely in baking, desserts, and perfume.

Senses

vanilja is used for these senses in English:

  • vanilla (of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.
  • vanilla (colloquial, mostly, computing, retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
  • vanilla (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 (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
  • vanilla (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.

vanilla — full definition

  1. noun The extract or flavoring made from the pods of a tropical climbing orchid, used widely in baking, desserts, and perfume.
  2. adj Plain, standard, or unmodified — without any special or extra features.
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