vanilla /vəˈnɪl.ə/noun 9adjective 4forms 3 noun9 •Any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes. •The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract. •The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant. •Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals. •A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream. •The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant. •(slang) An unmodded version of a game. •(slang) Someone who is not into fetishism. •(offensive) A white person. adjective4 •Of vanilla.A mass of folders and binders. One, vanilla in colour, catches her eye. — 2004 •Plain; conventional; unimaginative. •(informal) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic. •(informal) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.An uncharacteristically vanilla threesome and non-cute realist rendering - derived paradoxically from tracing drawings rather than photographs. — 2006 formsvanillas · more vanilla · most vanilla