🍦 A sweet flavor 🌱 A tropical plant 🧁 Sweet-flavored ⚪ Plain or basic

vanilla

1 1.0

Flavored with a sweet, creamy spice used in cakes and ice cream

adjective
/vəˈnɪlə/

: de vainilla

Can I please have a vanilla sweet cream cold brew Grande with vanilla sweet cream cold foam on top?

I do a vanilla iced latte with oat milk.

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Examples

I ordered a vanilla milkshake to enjoy with my meal.
So let's put our creamy Supreme vanilla frosting into a nice bowl.
And can I have a vanilla ring and can I have a hot chocolate?
I'm going to go with the vanilla classic, you know?
And up next we have the sandwiches category, beginning with classic vanilla sandwich.
What is it like vanilla Frappuccino from Starbucks?
And my vote is going to be the non fat vanilla soy latte.
I get an iced vanilla latte with oatmeal.
I do a vanilla iced latte with oat milk.

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Mine would be honestly like a classic Dunkin' Donuts vanilla sprinkle donut.

Matteo Lane

Synonyms

vanillic

vsvanilla

6.8

Having the sweet smell or taste of vanilla

is made with the actual extract and used mainly for food and drink

Idioms

too vanilla

Informal

1 8.5

Plain and not interesting with no new ideas

Compounds

vanilla ice cream

11 1.0

A sweet frozen dessert made from milk and cream with vanilla flavor

vanilla extract

9 2.3

A liquid made by soaking vanilla beans in alcohol to add flavor to food and drinks

vanilla bean

6 2.3

A long narrow pod that contains tiny black seeds people use to flavor food

vanilla pudding

1 1.0

A smooth sweet dessert flavored with vanilla, often served in a bowl

vanilla-scented

1 3.5

A thing that smells of sweet vanilla, like a candle or ice cream

vanilla orchid

1 5.3

A climbing tropical plant that produces pods called vanilla beans

genus Vanilla

Specialized

7.9

Tropical climbing orchids that produce pods used for vanilla flavor

homemade vanilla extract

3.7

People mix alcohol and vanilla beans at home to add flavor to recipes

Vanilla planifolia

Specialized

7.9

A climbing plant grown for the pods that become vanilla beans

vanilla sponge cake

1.0

A light, soft cake flavored with vanilla

vanilla liqueur

5.5

A sweet alcoholic drink flavored with vanilla

wild vanilla

8.9

A plant with leaves that smell like vanilla when crushed

How Aromatic

vanilla extract

9 2.3

vanilla

1 1.0

vanille

8.6

Surface Forms

vanilla positive

Etymology

Vanilla (as an adjective) meaning 'flavored with vanilla' comes from the same plant pods: if a food or drink is vanilla, it has the taste or extract from those pods. So calling something vanilla in this sense means it carries the classic vanilla flavor.