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Definition: Vanilla |
VanillaNoun1. Any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers. 2. A flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans). 3. A distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vanilla" was first used: 1662. (references) |
Etymology: Vanilla \Va*nil"la\, noun. [New Latin expression, from Spanish vainilla, diminutive of Spanish vaina sheath, pod, from Latin expression vagina; because its grains, or seeds, are contained in little pods.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Vanilla adj. [from the default flavor of ice cream in the U.S.] Ordinary flavor, standard. When used of food, very often does not mean that the food is flavored with vanilla extract! For example, `vanilla wonton soup' means ordinary wonton soup, as opposed to hot-and-sour wonton soup. Applied to hardware and software, as in "Vanilla Version 7 Unix can't run on a vanilla 11/34." Also used to orthogonalize chip nomenclature; for instance, a 74V00 means what TI calls a 7400, as distinct from a 74LS00, etc. This word differs from canonical in that the latter means `default', whereas vanilla simply means `ordinary'. For example, when hackers go on a great-wall, hot-and-sour soup is the canonical soup to get (because that is what most of them usually order) even though it isn't the vanilla (wonton) soup. Source: Jargon File. |
Food & Agriculture | Fruit or bean of a climbing plant of the orchid family, blackish in colour and very aromatic. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
For other uses of the word vanilla see vanilla (disambiguation). Vanilla is a flavouring essence prepared from the seed-pods of an orchid native to Mexico, though now widely grown throughout the tropics.
The name came from the Spanish word "vainilla", diminutive form of "vaina", which means "scabbard". Though there are many compounds present in the extracts of vanilla, the compound predominantly responsible for the characteristic flavour and smell of vanilla is known as vanillin.
Vanilla essence comes in two forms: the actual extract of the seedpods, and the far cheaper synthetic essence, basically consisting of a solution of synthetic vanillin (4-hydroxy-3-methoxybenzaldehyde):
Vanilla flavor in creams, cakes and other foodstuff may be achieved by adding some vanilla essence or by cooking vanilla beans in the liquid preparation. A stronger aroma may be attained if the beans are split in two; in this case, the innards of the beans, consisting of flavory tiny black grains, are mixed into the preparation.
Good quality vanilla has a strong aromatic flavor, but foodstuffs with small amounts of low quality vanilla or artificial vanilla-like flavorings are far more common.
One major use of vanilla is in flavouring ice cream: the most common, and thus "default", flavour of ice cream is vanilla.
By analogy, the term is used, often as "plain vanilla", in computing for default set up of a system, with no extras or modifications. Since "plain vanilla" ice creams are often almost tasteless, the term "French vanilla" is often used to designate preparations that actually have a strong vanilla aroma, and possibly contain vanilla grains.
The species of Orchid that is harvested for vanillin (there are in fact several) is mainly Vanilla planifolia.
Most of this genus of one hundred and ten species of vine-like plants have quite large and attractive flowers of green or cream, mostly with a sweet scent.
Vanilla was a well regarded flavoring in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and was brought back to Europe (and from there the rest of the world) by the Spanish Conquistadors.
In ancient Mexico the Totonac people were regarded as the producers of the best vanilla. They continued to be the world's chief producers of the flavoring through the mid 19th century. At that time, French vanilla growers in Mexico traded their knowledge of artificial insemination of flowers for the Totonac knowledge of preparing the beans.
Some connoisseurs still regard the Totonac vanilla as the best. Such is sometimes marketed in gourmet food stores as "Mexican vanilla", although Mexico also produces low quality vanilla that sometimes shares this label.
The leaves of the vanilla are thick and leathery, even fleshy in some species, though there are a significant number of species that have become nearly or totally leafless and appear to use their green climbing stems for photosynthesis.
Coca-Cola Corporation is the world's largest customer of natural vanilla extract. When New Coke was introduced, in 1984, the economy of Madagascar crashed, and only recovered after New Coke flopped. The reason is because New Coke uses vanillin, a less-expensive synthetic substitute, and purchases of vanilla more than halved during this period. By 2002, the company introduced Vanilla Coke which is Coca-Cola with vanilla flavor.
Species of the genus Vanilla (family Orchidaceae, subfamily Orchidoideae or Epidendroideae, tribe Epidendreae or Vanilleae, subtribe Vanillinae)
The genus was published by J. Miller in 1754.
- V. abundiflora J.J.Smith
- V. acuminata Rolfe
- V. acuta Rolfe
- V. acutifolia Lodd.
- V. africana Lindl.
- V. albida Blume
- V. andamanica Rolfe
- V. angustifolia Willd.
- V. angustipetala Schlechter
- V. annamica Gagnep.
- V. anomala Ames & L.O.Williams
- V. appendiculata Rolfe
- V. argentina Hicken
- V. aromatica Swartz
- V. axillaris Mill.
- V. bahiana Hoehne
- V. bakeri Schlechter
- V. bampsiana D.Geerinck
- V. barbellata Reichenbach filius (also V. articulata Northrop) - wormvine orchid
- V. barrereana Y.Veyret & D.L.Szlachetko
- V. beauchenei A.Chevalier
- V. bertoniensis Bertoni
- V. bicolor Lindley
- V. borneensis Rolfe
- V. bradei Schlechter
- V. calopogon Reichb.f.
- V. calyculata Schlechter
- V. carinata Rolfe
- V. chalottii Finet
- V. chamissonis Klotzsch (also Epidendrum vanilla Vellozo)
- V. claviculata (W. Wright) Swartz - green withe
- V. columbiana Rolfe
- V. correllii R.P.Sauleda & R.M.Adams
- V. coursii H.Perrier
- V. crenulata Rolfe
- V. cristagalli Hoehne
- V. cristato-callosa Hoehne
- V. cucullata Kraenzl.ex J.Braun & K.Schum.
- V. decaryana H.Perrier
- V. denticulata Pabst
- V. diabolica P.O'Byrne
- V. dietschiana Edwall.
- V. dilloniana Correll (also V. eggersii Rolfe, V. aphylla Eggers) - Dillon's Vanilla, leafless vanilla, Mrs. Lott's Vanilla
- V. domestica Druce
- V. dominiana Hort.ex Gentil
- V. dubia Hoehne
- V. duckei Huber
- V. dungsii Pabst
- V. edwallii Hoehne
- V. eggersii Rolfe (also V. aphylla Eggers)
- V. ensifolia Rolfe
- V. epidendrum Mirb.
- V. fasciola Spreng.
- V. fimbriata Rolfe
- V. fragrans Ames - French Polynesia
- V. francoisii H.Perrier
- V. gardneri Rolfe
- V. giulianettii F.M.Bailey
- V. grandiflora Lindl.
- V. grandifolia Lindl.
- V. gratiosa Griseb.
- V. griffithi Reichb.f. - Malaysian
- V. hallei D.L.Szlachetko & T.S.Olszewski
- V. hamata Klotzsch
- V. hartii Rolfe
- V. havilandii Rolfe
- V. helleri A.D.Hawkes
- V. heterolopha Summerhayes
- V. hirsuta M.A.Clements & D.L.Jones
- V. hostmanni Rolfe
- V. humblotii Reichb.f.
- V. imperialis Kraenzl. - African
- V. inodora Schiede (sometimes confused with V. mexicana Miller) - Fuchs's Vanilla, Mexican vanilla
- V. insignis Ames
- V. kaniensis Schlechter
- V. kempteriana Schlechter
- V. kinabaluensis Carr
- V. latisegmenta Ames & C.Schweinf.
- V. laurentiana Wildem.
- V. leprieurii Porteres
- V. lindmaniana Kraenzlin
- V. lujae De Wild.
- V. lutea Wright ex Griseb.
- V. lutescens Moq.ex Dupuis
- V. madagascariensis Rolfe
- V. majaijensis Blanco
- V. marowynensis Pulle
- V. methonica Reichb.f. & Warsz.
- V. mexicana P. Miller (also Epidendrum vanilla Linnaeus, V. aromatica Swartz, V. anaromatica Grisebach, V. vanilla (L.) Britt. ex H. Karst , V. planifolia B. D. Jackson ex Andrews, Myrobroma fragrans Salisbury, V. fragrans (Salisbury) Ames) - Mexican vanilla, Commercial Vanilla, Scentless Vanilla
- V. microcarpa Karst.
- V. montagnacii Porteres
- V. montana Ridley
- V. moonii Thw.
- V. nigerica Rendle
- V. ochyrae D.L.Szlachetko & T.S.Olszewski
- V. odorata Presl
- V. organensis Rolfe
- V. ovalifolia Rolfe
- V. ovalis Blanco
- V. ovata Rolfe
- V. palembanica Teijsm. & Binn.
- V. palmarum Lindley (also V. lutea Wright sensu Grisebach)
- V. parishii Reichb.f.
- V. parvifolia Rodrig.
- V. pauciflora R. L. Dressler
- V. penicillata Garay & Dunsterville
- V. perexilis Bertoni
- V. perrieri Schlechter
- V. pfaviana Reichenbach f. (also V. preussii Kraenzlin)
- V. phaeantha Reichenbach f. - Oblong-leaved Vanilla, Leafy Vanilla
- V. phalaenopsis Reichenbach f.
- V. philippinensis Rolfe
- V. pierrei Gagnep.
- V. pilifera Holttum - Malaysian
- V. pittierii Schlechter
- V. platinilla Hort.ex Gentil
- V. platyphylla Schlechter
- V. pleei Portères
- V. poitaei Reichenbach f. - Poit's vanilla
- V. polylepis Summerhayes
- V. pompona Scheide (also V. grandiflora Lindley, V. lutescens Moquille-Tand, V. surinamensis Reichenbach f., V. claviculata Duss, V. planifolia var. gigantea Hoehne) - West Indian vanilla, Guadeloupe vanilla, Antilles vanilla
- V. ponapensis Kanehira & Yamamoto
- V. porteresiana D.L.Szlachetko & Y.Veyret
- V. preussii Kraenzl.
- V. pterosperma Lindl.ex Wall.
- V. purusara Barb.Rodr. ex Hoehne
- V. ramosa J.J.Smith
- V. reuiziana Kraenzlin
- V. ribeiroi Hoehne
- V. rojasiana Hoehne
- V. ronoensis Hayata
- V. roscheri Reichb.f. - from KwaZulu-Natal
- V. rubiginosa Griff.
- V. rubra Urb.
- V. ruiziana Klotzsch
- V. sativa Schiede
- V. savannarum Britton
- V. schliehenii Mansf.ex Schlieben
- V. schwackeana Hoehne
- V. seranica J.J.Smith
- V. sereti De Wild.
- V. siamensis Rolfe
- V. somai Hayata
- V. speciosa Boxall ex Naves
- V. sprucei Rolfe
- V. sumatrana J.J.Smith
- V. surinamensis Reichb.f
- V. sylvestris Schiede
- V. tahitiensis J. M. Moore - Tahiti vanilla
- V. taiwaniana S.S.Ying
- V. tiarei Costantin & Bois
- V. tisserantii Porteres
- V. tolypephora Ridl.
- V. trigonocarpa Hoehne
- V. uncinata Huber ex Hoehne
- V. vellozii Rolfe
- V. verrucosa Hauman
- V. viridiflora Blume
- V. walkeriae Wight
- V. wariensis Schlechter
- V. weberbauerinan Kraenzlin
- V. wightii Lindl.ex Wight
- V. wrightii Reichenbach f. (also V. claviculata Lindley non Swartz, V. palmarum Grisebach, V. lutea C. Wright, V. gratiosa Grisebach, V. palmarum var. grandiflora Cogniaux)
- V. yersiniana Guillaumin & de Sigaldi
- V. zanzibarica Rolfe
External links
Electronic Plant Information Centre at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2003-11-8Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vanilla."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The term vanilla can have meanings other than its standard meaning:
- For vanilla as used in chemistry and flavouring see vanilla.
- For vanilla as terminology in finance see vanilla option.
- For vanilla as terminology in human sexual behaviour see vanilla sex.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vanilla (disambiguation)."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In finance, a vanilla option is a type of derivative security. Though the term is very widely used throughout the financial literature and the financial markets it lacks a precise definition. Generally speaking a vanilla option is a 'simple' option in some sense. e.g. a particular type of option may be described as vanilla if it is well-established in the financial markets and is easy to trade - vanilla options typically have good liquidity at a wide range of strike prices and maturities. Pricing models may also deliver closed-form solutions for the present value of vanilla options. However the term the vanilla is almost always used in the context where there is a more complex or exotic option being considered. Thus in one context a particular instrument may be considered to be vanilla but exotic in an other. A striking example is the following sequence of instruments each of which is exotic compared to the previous one in the list but rather vanilla compared to the next:financial future --> interest rate swap --> european swaption --> bermudan swaption --> rollercoaster bermudan swaption.
(Note the first two of this are instruments without optionality, the term vanilla is applied to these too).
Calibration and hedging are key factors in determining which instruments are called vanilla. For example a bermudan swaption may be hedged by a collection of european swaptions. Thus a trader in the bermudan market will likely think of european swaptions as the vanilla. Further a model developed to price bermudan options may be calibrated (i.e. have its parameters chosen) such that the model gives the same prices as those found in the market for european swaptions. That is, the model takes the european prices as given and uses them to determine a price for the more complex bermudan product. Again the term vanilla describes the european swaptions and exotic describes the bermudan.
Even with the above caveats there are instruments almost universally termed vanilla in various markets. In the foreign exchange and stock markets the most vanilla options are european call and put options. In the interest rate market swaps and caps are the vanilla instruments, although the former does not actually involve any optionality. European swaptions are sufficiently liquid to be called vanilla. The credit derivatives market is less mature. Here the three most traded instruments are total return swaps, credit default swaps and credit spread options. These are widely expected to become the mainstream vanilla products of the market in the coming years.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vanilla option."
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Vanilla sex is a term that refers to standard or normal sex. Different cultures, subcultures, and individuals have different ideas about what constitutes vanilla sex. Often it is interpreted as sex that does not involve such elements as BDSM, kink, or fetish activities. Among homosexual men it sometimes implies that the activity is non-insertive (i.e. interfemoral intercourse, manual stimulation, frottage etc.)The term 'vanilla' derives from the use of vanilla extract as the default flavoring for ice cream, and by extension meaning 'plain' or 'conventional'.
Neapolitan is a term proposed to describe the sex life of a person that enjoys "vanilla sex" (the commonest, and thus "default", flavour of ice cream is vanilla) as well as other "flavors" of sex, such as BDSM.
The term is presumably coined in reference to Neapolitan ice cream, which has layers of different colours, including a layer of vanilla flavour, rather than the inhabitants of Naples.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Vanilla sex."
Synonym: VanillaSynonym: vanilla extract (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Alligator pear, apple; apple slump; artichoke; ashcake, griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole, avocado, banana, beche de mer, barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater, bouilli, bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey; chowder, chupatty, clam, compote, damper, fish, frumenty, grapes, hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal, oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis, sauerkraut, sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash, supawn, trepang, vanilla, waffle, walnut. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Vanilla |
| English words defined with "vanilla": coumara nut, cream soda, creme anglais, creme de cacao ♦ Deer's-tongue ♦ genus Selenipedium ♦ Holy grass ♦ plainness ♦ Selenipedium ♦ tonka bean, Trilisa odoratissima ♦ Vanilla bean, vanilla extract, vanilla ice cream, vanilla orchid, Vanilla planifolia, vanilla pudding, Vanillic, vanillin, Vanilloes ♦ wild vanilla. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vanilla": ANSI, Arnica de paramo ♦ Chiquilla nudosa ♦ Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface ♦ methyl vanillin, microfloppies, minifloppy ♦ ring-biscuit, Romero chiquito ♦ SNOBOL4, String Oriented Symbolic Language ♦ Zukurate. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Ice cream, vanilla, one large tub of. Magnesia, milk of, one bottle (Trainspotting; writing credit: Irvine Welsh; John Hodge) Scoop of chocolate, scoop of vanilla. Don't waste my time (City Slickers; writing credit: Lowell Ganz; Babaloo Mandel) Nothing mixes better than vanilla and chocolate (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) That's a vanilla milkshake (Ghost World; writing credit: Daniel Clowes) But I'd like the pie heated and I don't want the ice cream on top, I want it on the side, and I'd like strawberry instead of vanilla if you have it, if not then no ice cream just whipped cream but only if it's real; if it's out of the can then nothing (When Harry Met Sally...; writing credit: Nora Ephron) | |
Lyrics | I like vanilla, it's the finest of the flavors (One Week; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) I take them caramel with a hint of vanilla (What's Your Flava?; performing artist: Craig David) So he bought vanilla ice (Pretty Fly; performing artist: The Offspring) My posse's to the side yellin', Go Vanilla Go (Play that funky music; performing artist: Vanilla Ice) Or play Vanilla Ice (Achy Breaky Song; performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic) | |
Movie/TV Titles | There's Always Vanilla (1971) Little Pancho Vanilla (1938) I'll Take Vanilla (1934) Vanilla Sky (2001) French Vanilla (1994) | |
Song Titles | ICE ICE BABY (performing artist: VANILLA ICE) Play That Funky Music (performing artist: Vanilla Ice) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | (1) color slide shows a single vanilla ice cream sandwich (very traditional looking). Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | Vanilla Leaf (Achlys triphylla) along East Evans Creek. Credit: Terry Tuttle. |
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| "Vanilla coke" by Jessica Poli Commentary: "Inside vanilla coke bottle." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
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Economic History | Comoros | It also is the world's second-largest producer of vanilla. (references) |
Comoros | Trade: Exports (1999 est.)--$7.9 million: vanilla, cloves, perfume essences, copra. (references) | |
Madagascar | Trade (2000): Exports--$1,061 million: apparel, shrimp, vanilla, coffee, sugar, cloves, graphite, essential oils, industrial and gemstones. (references) | |
Political Economy | Madagascar | Agricultural exports grew 5.2 percent with vanilla, coffee, cloves, and pepper registering increases. (references) |
Madagascar | The smuggling of vanilla, gold, and precious stones, and cattle rustling continued to be major concerns. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Vanilla" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.55% of the time. "Vanilla" is used about 166 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.55% | 147 | 25,998 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.45% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Total | 100.00% | 166 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "vanilla": Cuban vanilla ♦ genus Vanilla ♦ plain vanilla swap ♦ vanilla bean ♦ vanilla claviculata ♦ vanilla extract ♦ vanilla flavoring ♦ vanilla flavouring ♦ vanilla grass ♦ vanilla ice cream ♦ vanilla or Seneca grass ♦ vanilla orchid ♦ vanilla planifolia ♦ vanilla plant ♦ vanilla Pompona ♦ vanilla pudding ♦ vanilla sugar ♦ vanilla swap ♦ wild vanilla. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "vanilla": vanilla-coloured, vanilla-flavoured, vanilla-like, vanilla-nosed, vanilla-scented, vanilla-tasting, vanilla-tree. | |
Ending with "vanilla": plain-vanilla. | |
Containing "vanilla": sugar-and-vanilla-scented. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
vanilla sky | 859 | vanilla frosting | 32 |
vanilla ice | 793 | vanilla vodka | 32 |
vanilla | 335 | pudding recipe vanilla | 31 |
vanilla bean | 190 | frosting recipe vanilla | 29 |
vanilla sky soundtrack | 155 | plant vanilla | 28 |
vanilla ice cream recipe | 133 | vanilla bean cheesecake | 27 |
ice lyrics vanilla | 100 | vanilla ice pic | 25 |
vanilla extract | 88 | vanilla pudding | 24 |
coke and vanilla | 71 | vanilla cake | 24 |
homemade vanilla ice cream | 70 | milkshake recipe vanilla | 24 |
vanilla fudge | 67 | vanilla wafer | 24 |
picture of vanilla ice | 62 | script sky vanilla | 21 |
gorilla vanilla | 60 | pepsi vanilla | 21 |
cream homemade ice recipe vanilla | 59 | baby ice ice ice lyrics vanilla | 20 |
vanilla ice cream | 57 | fudge recipe vanilla | 20 |
mexican vanilla | 52 | absolut vanilla | 19 |
quote sky vanilla | 41 | fox vanilla | 19 |
cookie vanilla | 41 | recipe vanilla wafer | 19 |
vanilla orchid | 38 | ninja vanilla | 19 |
cake recipe vanilla | 33 | icing vanilla | 19 |
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| Language | Translations for "vanilla"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vanilje (vanilla-tree), me vanilje. (various references) | |
Arabic | الونيل نبات إمريكي. (various references) | |
Asturian | vainilla. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ванилов. (various references) | |
Cebuano | banilya. (various references) | |
Chinese | 香草. (various references) | |
Czech | vanilka. (various references) | |
Danish | vanille. (various references) | |
Dutch | vanille. (various references) | |
Esperanto | vanilo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | vanilja. (various references) | |
Farsi | وانیل , ثعلب . (various references) | |
Finnish | vanilja. (various references) | |
French | vanille. (various references) | |
Frisian | fanylje. (various references) | |
German | Vanille. (various references) | |
Greek | βανίλια. (various references) | |
Hebrew | וניל, שנף. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vanília. (various references) | |
Indonesian | vanili. (various references) | |
Italian | vaniglia (vanillin). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | バナナの皮 (baby inn, banana peel, bavarois, buffer-in, bunny girl, HABITAT, vanishing cream, vanity bag, vanity case). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | バニラ . (various references) | |
Korean | 바닐라. (various references) | |
Macedonian | vanila. (various references) | |
Manx | vanilley. (various references) | |
Papiamen | vania. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anillavay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | baunilha. (various references) | |
Provencal | vanilha. (various references) | |
Romanian | vanilie. (various references) | |
Russian | ванильный, ваниль ванильный, ваниль. (various references) | |
Samoan | vanila. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vanila, od vanile. (various references) | |
Sicilian | vanigghia. (various references) | |
Spanish | vainilla. (various references) | |
Swedish | vanilj. (various references) | |
Turkish | vanilya. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | ваніль. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | SELENIPEDIUM CHICA, vagina, VANILLA FRAGRANS, Vanilla fragrans salisburynames, Vanilla planifolia, Vanilla planifolia andrews, Vanilla tahitensis j.w.moore. (various references) |
| Spanish | 900-Modern | vainilla. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "vanilla": vanillas. (additional references) | |
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"Vanilla" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Iannella, Vaila, vainilla, vanila, vanillar, vanisla, variola, venile, venilla. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vanilla" (pronounced vuni"lu) |
| 5 | -u n i" l u | Manila, manilla. |
| 3 | -i" l u | Armilla, chinchilla, flotilla, gorilla, guerilla, guerrilla, Mantilla, maxilla, Scilla, scintilla, Villa, Zillah. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-l-n-v" | |
-2 letters: anvil, avail, avian, lanai, liana, naval, nival, villa, vinal. | |
-3 letters: alan, anal, anil, lain, lava, nail, nill, vail, vain, vial, vill, vina. | |
-4 letters: aal, ail, ain, ala, all, ana, ani, ava, ill, lav, lin, nil, van, via. | |
-5 letters: aa, ai, al, an, in, la, li, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-l-l-n-v" | |
+1 letter: vanillas. | |
+2 letters: gallivant, vaginally, valiantly. | |
+3 letters: gallivants, invaluable, invaluably, villanella. | |
+4 letters: alleviating, alleviation, evangelical, gallivanted, salvational, unavailable, vacillating, vacillation, valuational. | |
+5 letters: alleviations, ambivalently, evangelicals, gallivanting, galvanically, intravitally, levitational, unalleviated, unavailingly, vacillations, vaudevillian, vocationally, volcanically. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Usage Frequency 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Translations: Ancient 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Bibliography |
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