Vanilla



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n.香草, 香子兰
• ［英］ n.香草, 香子兰 ( any of a genus of tropical American climbing orchids)

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: New Latin, from Spanish vainilla vanilla (plant and fruit), diminutive of vaina sheath, from Latin vagina sheath, vagina
• Date: 1662
• 1.
  • a. vanilla bean
  • b. a commercially important extract of the vanilla 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 vanilla
• 2. lacking distinction ; plain, ordinary, conventional

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