Vanilla : (noun)
1: 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) [syn: vanilla extract]
3: a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla
beans
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Vanilla : \Va*nil"la\, n. [NL., fr. Sp. vainilla, dim. of Sp.
vaina a sheath, a pod, L. vagina; because its grains, or
seeds, are contained in little pods.]
1. (Bot.) A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants, natives of
tropical America.
2. The long podlike capsules of Vanilla planifolia, and V.
claviculata, remarkable for their delicate and agreeable
odor, for the volatile, odoriferous oil extracted from
them; also, the flavoring extract made from the capsules,
extensively used in confectionery, perfumery, etc.
Note: As a medicine, vanilla is supposed to possess powers
analogous to valerian, while, at the same time, it is
far more grateful.
Cuban vanilla, a sweet-scented West Indian composite shrub
({Eupatorium Dalea).
Vanilla bean, the long capsule of the vanilla plant.
Vanilla grass. Same as Holy grass, under Holy.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Vanilla :
1. (Default flavour of ice cream in the US) Ordinary
flavour, standard. When used of food, very often does not
mean that the food is flavoured 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 PDP 11/34." Also used to orthogonalise 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
to a chinese restaurant, hot-and-sour wonton soup is the
canonical wonton soup to get (because that is what most of
them usually order) even though it isn't the vanilla wonton
soup.
[{Jargon File]
(1994-11-04)
2. Snobol4 by Catspaw, Inc. for MS-DOS.
ftp://cs.arizona.edu/snobol4/vanilla.arc)">(ftp://cs.arizona.edu/snobol4/vanilla.arc).
(1992-02-05)
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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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.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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