vanilla

Universal Words 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 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.