a substance obtained from the beans of a tropical plant, also called vanilla, used to add taste to sweet foods, for example ice cream 香草醛,香草香精(从热带植物香子兰豆中提取,用于冰淇淋等甜食) - (British English)
vanilla essence 香子兰精 - (North American English)
vanilla extract 香子兰精 - (British English)
a vanilla pod 香子兰蒴果 - (North American English)
a vanilla bean 香子兰豆
Oxford Collocations DictionaryVanilla is used before these nouns:- bean
- essence
- extract
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Word Originmid 17th cent.: from Spanish vainilla ‘pod’, diminutive of vaina ‘sheath, pod’, from Latin vagina ‘sheath’. The spelling change was due to association with French vanille.- (British English)