noun, adjective
noun [U] a substance obtained from the beans of the tropical vanilla plant, used to give flavour to sweet foods, for example ice cream: (BrE) vanilla essence * (AmE) vanilla extract * (BrE) a vanilla pod * (AmE) a vanilla bean
Part of speech: adjective
1 flavoured with vanilla:
vanilla ice cream
2 (informal, especially AmE) plain and ordinary:
The city is pretty much plain vanilla. * This is only the vanilla version of the software.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is vanilla a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, vanilla is tagged as adjective.
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