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# vanilla

«vanilla» in Mova's school dictionary: **a sweet flavour that comes from the seed pods of a kind…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (vanilla, uncountable); adjective (vanilla ice cream)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Vanilla is a sweet flavour that comes from the seed pods of a kind of orchid plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanilla/#m1)

2) Vanilla is a flavour of ice cream, cake and other sweets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanilla/#m2)

3) Informally, «vanilla» means plain or ordinary, with nothing special added. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanilla/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, vanilla is a favourite ice-cream flavour and is used in baking. In science and geography, vanilla pods grow on a climbing orchid in warm countries and must be dried. In maths problems, choosing flavours like vanilla, chocolate and strawberry is used for counting and probability. Phrases: «vanilla ice cream», «vanilla essence», «vanilla extract», «plain vanilla».

### examples

- I'd like a vanilla ice cream, please. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanilla/#x1)
- Add a teaspoon of vanilla to the cake mix. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanilla/#x2)
- Vanilla comes from the pod of an orchid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanilla/#x3)
- Of 20 pupils, 8 chose vanilla, 7 chose chocolate and 5 chose strawberry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanilla/#x4)
- The cupcakes smelled of vanilla. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanilla/#x5)
- It was just a vanilla phone with no extra features. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanilla/#x6)

### note

Uncountable as a flavour: «some vanilla». Spelt with double l. Vanilla extract has alcohol, so it is only used in small amounts in baking. «Vanilla» meaning «plain» is informal.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vanilla» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vanilla/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.