Synonyms for Vanilla
vəˈnɪl ə or, often, -ˈnɛl əvanil·la

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1. vanillanoun

   Synonyms:
   imitation vanilla, vanilla bean, vanilla extract

2. vanillanoun

   Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.

   vanilla suit.

   Synonyms:
   vanilla bean, vanilla extract, imitation vanilla

3. vanillanoun

   The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.

   Synonyms:
   vanilla extract, imitation vanilla, vanilla bean

4. vanillanoun

   The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.

   Synonyms:
   imitation vanilla, vanilla extract, vanilla bean

5. vanillanoun

   The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.

   You can tell that the secret ingredient missing from New Coke was vanilla, because certain South American economies collapsed when it was introduced, and miraculously revived when the old formula was used again.

   Synonyms:
   imitation vanilla, vanilla extract, vanilla bean

6. vanillanoun

   Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.

   Synonyms:
   vanilla bean, imitation vanilla, vanilla extract

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1. vanillanoun

   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

   Synonyms:
   vanilla extract

   Antonyms:
   fancy

2. vanilla, vanilla extractnoun

   a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans)

   Synonyms:
   vanilla extract, vanilla

   Antonyms:
   fancy

3. vanillaadjective

   a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans

   Synonyms:
   vanilla extract

   Antonyms:
   fancy

4. vanillaadjective

   flavored with vanilla extract

   "he liked vanilla ice cream"

   Antonyms:
   fancy

5. vanillaadjective

   plain and without any extras or adornments

   "the most common type of bond is the straight or plain vanilla bond"; "the basic car is known as the vanilla version"

   Antonyms:
   fancy

Matched Categories

1. • Flavoring
   • Orchid

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1. List of paraphrases for "vanilla":

   classic, cream

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1. Matt Meyers:

   When I was young my family would always go out for cones together and our dad would get our little black poodle a small vanilla ice cream. I’ll never forget how excited she got.

2. Will Newman:

   The banana pudding is a staple at Edley’s. Our guests view it as a must-have side rather than a dessert, the recipe calls for bananas, vanilla pudding, cookies and a homemade whipped cream topping.

3. Kemp Powers:

   Little details of One Night in Miami show up in various biographies, one little fact that's true is that all they had was vanilla ice cream.

4. Terpsichore Lindeman:

   If vanilla is so widely accepted then why do they have 31 flavors? Normal is not the norm.

5. Vipin Narang:

   Indirectly, they've talked about conditions of denuclearization in the past, reaffirming denuclearization on South Korea is like vanilla ice cream now, it's par for the course.