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Definitions of vanilla in various dictionaries:
noun - any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers
noun - a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans)
noun - a distinctive fragrant flavor characteristic of vanilla beans
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| (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Costa Rica.) The orchid herecan be fertilizedby only a few species of bees.Luckily, nature managesto get the job done,producing this flavorful beanused in ice cream and baking |
| This bean is the distinctive flavoring that makes a cream soda |
| The dried pods of a certain climbing orchid provide this flavoring |
| From Comoros, this plant product, also an ice cream flavor |
| MMM! You can have a sugar cookie scrub at the Savannah spa named for this ice cream flavoring |
| A black & white is a chocolate soda with this flavor ice cream |
| Madagascar is one of the leading producers of this bean used as a popular flavor of ice cream |
| McCormick says that its pure extract made from these beans has an unlimited shelf life |
| This most popular ice cream flavor comes from the fruit of a tropical orchid |
| Vanilla description |
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| Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily from the Mexican species, flat-leaved vanilla (V. planifolia). The word vanilla, derived from vainilla, the diminutive of the Spanish word vaina (vaina itself meaning sheath or pod), is translated simply as "little pod". Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican people cultivated the vine of the vanilla orchid, called tlilxochitl by the Aztecs. Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés is credited with introducing both vanilla and chocolate to Europe in the 1520s.Pollination is required to set the vanilla fruit from which the flavoring is derived. In 1837, Belgian botanist Charles François Antoine Morren discovered this fact and pioneered a method of artificially pollinating the plant. The method proved financially unworkable and was not deployed commercially. In 1841, Edmond Albius, a slave who lived on the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, discovered at the age of 12 that the plant could be hand-pollinated. Hand-pollin |