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- mass noun a substance obtained from vanilla pods or produced artificially and used to flavour sweet foods or to impart a fragrant scent to cosmetic preparations（天然, 人工）香草精：
as modifier vanilla ice cream.香草冰淇淋。
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- ice cream flavoured with vanilla香草冰淇淋：
four scoops of vanilla with hot fudge sauce.
四个香草冰淇淋球加热乳糖酱。
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- as modifier of the colour of vanilla ice cream香草冰淇淋色的, 浅奶黄色的：
a vanilla dress.
浅奶黄套装。
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- a tropical climbing orchid which has fragrant flowers and long pod-like fruit香子兰, 香果兰, 香夹兰。
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- Genus Vanilla, family Orchidaceae: many species, in particular V. planifolia, the chief commercial source of vanilla pods香子兰属, 兰科：多种, 尤指荚香子兰, 它是商用香草精主要原料。
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- （亦作vanilla pod）the fruit of this plant which is cured and then either used in cookery or processed to extract an essence which is used for flavour and fragrance香子兰荚。
(亦作plain vanilla)
- having no special or extra features; ordinary无特色的; 普通的：
it will be able to do tricks that plain vanilla CD-ROMs can't.
它将具有普通只读光盘存储器所不具备的功能。
词源
mid 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.