# vanilla
## English
### Alternative forms

* vanille (archaic)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vainilla, a diminutive form of vaina (“pod”). "Plain" senses derive from the perceived plainness of vanilla ice cream.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vəˈnɪlə/, /vəˈnɛlə/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪlə, -ɛlə

### Noun

vanilla (countable and uncountable, plural vanillas)
* (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.
* (countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
    Synonym: vanilla bean
* (uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
    Synonym: vanilla extract
* (uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
* (uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
    Synonym: imitation vanilla
* (countable, sexuality, slang) Someone who is not into fetishism.
* (uncountable, gaming, slang) An unmodded version of a game.
    Synonym: stock
* A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.
    vanilla:

#### Derived terms

* Cuban vanilla
* imitation vanilla
* nonvanilla
* plain vanilla
* vanilla bean
* vanilla essence
* vanilla extract
* vanillafy
* vanilla grass
* vanilla leaf
* vanillaness
* vanillar
* vanilla slice
* vanilla wafer
* vanilla-y
* vanillery

#### See also

* flavour extract

### Adjective

vanilla (comparative more vanilla, superlative most vanilla)
* (of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.
** 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:A mass of folders and binders. One, vanilla in colour, catches her eye.
* (colloquial, chiefly computing, retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
    vanilla JavaScript
** 2001, Michael Foot, “BeebIt 0.32 and BBCFiles 0.29 released”, in comp.sys.acorn.announce (Usenet):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.
* (sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
    Synonym: normophilic
** 2006, Felix Lance Falkon, Gay Art: A Historic Collection, →ISBN, page 136:An uncharacteristically vanilla threesome and non-cute realist rendering - derived paradoxically from tracing drawings rather than photographs.
** 2010, Chloe Stowe, Hard Water, →ISBN, page 37: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.
** 2014, Christina Thacher, The Negotiation: A BDSM Romance, →ISBN:Sebastian could never do that, be in a marriage with a vanilla woman.
* Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

#### Synonyms

* vanillar
* See also Thesaurus:bare-bones

#### Related terms

* vanillin

#### See also

* (slang, electronics): jellybean

## Icelandic
### Etymology

Borrowed from English vanilla, from Spanish vainilla, diminutive of vaina (“pod”), from Latin vāgīna (“sheath”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvaːnɪlːa/

### Noun

vanilla f (genitive singular vanillu, no plural) or less commonly vanilla n (genitive singular vanilla, no plural)
* (usually singular only, uncountable) vanilla

#### Declension

or less commonly

#### Derived terms

* vanilluplanta