vanilla
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Is vanilla a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (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.Examples: "Vanilla itself was transplanted from Madagascar, the main source of the spice, to Polynesia a century ago."countable
2. (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.Synonyms: vanilla beancountable
3. (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.Synonyms: vanilla extractuncountable
4. (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.uncountable
5. (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.Synonyms: imitation vanillauncountable
6. (countable, sexuality, slang) Someone who is not into fetishism.countableslang
adj (English)
1. (of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.Examples: "A mass of folders and binders. One, vanilla in colour, catches her eye."usually
2. (colloquial, chiefly computing, retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.Examples: "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."colloquialretronym
3. (sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.Examples: "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."; "Sebastian could never do that, be in a marriage with a vanilla woman."Synonyms: normophilic
Definition source: Wiktionary