vanilla

IPA: vʌnˈɪɫʌ

(countable) Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
(countable) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
(uncountable) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
(uncountable) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
(uncountable) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
(countable, sexuality, slang) Someone who is not into fetishism.
(uncountable, gaming, slang) An unmodded version of a game.
A yellowish-white colour, like that of vanilla ice cream.

(of flavor, etc.) Of vanilla.
(colloquial, chiefly computing, retronym) Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
(sexuality) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

Examples of "vanilla" in Sentences

No matter what type of ice cream I try, the vanilla is always a disapointment.
(The word vanilla is derived from the Spanish vainilla, meaning "little pod.")
A third sort, which comes from Brazil, is the _vanillon_, or large vanilla of the French market; the _vanilla pamprona_ or _bova_ of the
Most likely at the time they were marketed the dealers couldn't give them away because most folks who want a Weatherby would not be happy with a plain vanilla '06. +2
I think you put them all in one place that don't have any standard domestic what I call vanilla prisoners even anywhere in the facility to mitigate the threat of that.
Chairman Frank dismissed “plain vanilla” out of hand, cut deals, exempted some groups from oversight by the consumer agency and the derivative loopholes made it into the bill on his watch.
The building official said he wants the house taken down to its shell - what he calls a vanilla box - with only the salvageable materials remaining and the contaminated soil from past sewer problems removed.
But "I've just added Fluffer Nutter to our baking schedule," Michelle said last week, which she described as vanilla cake with marshmallow filling, a peanut frosting, a dollop of marshmallows and a drizzle of honey on top.