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Vanilla
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1. Vanilla is a flavouring used in ice cream and other sweet food. I added a dollop of vanilla ice-cream to the pie. N-UNCOUNT: usu N n 2. If you describe a person or thing as vanilla, you mean that they are ordinary, with no special or extra features. ...just plain vanilla couples like me and Tony... ADJ
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I. noun Etymology: New Latin, from Spanish vainilla ~ (plant and fruit), diminutive of vaina sheath, from Latin vagina sheath, vagina Date: 1662 1. a. ~ bean b. a commercially important extract of the ~ bean that is used especially as a flavoring 2. any of a genus (Vanilla) of tropical American climbing epiphytic orchids II. adjective Date: 1846 1. flavored with ~ 2. lacking distinction ; plain, ordinary, conventional ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, esp. V. planifolia, with fragrant flowers. b (in full vanilla-pod) the fruit of these. 2 a substance obtained from the vanilla-pod or synthesized and used to flavour ice-cream, chocolate, etc. Etymology: Sp. vainilla pod, dimin. of vaina sheath, pod, f. L VAGINA ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. бот. ваниль (Vanilla planifolia) 2. ваниль, ванильная палочка (пряность) 3. стручок ванили 4. разг. ванильное мороженое two vanillas —- две порции ванильного мороженого 5. ам. сл. красотка 6. ам. сл. пустые разговоры, сплетни; бессмыслица 7. ванильный 8. бесцветный, пресный; неоригинальный, избитый ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~1 n a substance used to give a special taste to ice cream, cakes etc, made from the beans of a tropical plant ~2 adj having the taste of vanilla (vanilla ice-cream | vanilla essence) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1662, from Sp. vainilla "vanilla plant," lit. "little pod," dim. of vaina "sheath," from L. vagina "sheath" (see vagina). So called from the shape of the pods. European discovery 1521 by Hernando Cortes' soldiers on reconnaissance in southeastern Mexico. Meaning "conventional, of ordinary sexual preferences" is 1970s, from notion of whiteness and the common choice of vanilla ice cream. Vanillin is from 1868. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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