VANILLA

I. noun Etymology: New Latin, from Spanish vainilla ~ (plant and fruit), diminutive of vaina sheath, from Latin vagina sheath, vagina Date: 1662 1. ~ bean , a commercially important extract of the ~ bean that is used especially as a flavoring, any of a genus ( Vanilla ) of tropical American climbing epiphytic orchids, II. adjective Date: 1846 flavored with ~, lacking distinction ; plain , ordinary , conventional