NOUN | plant | genus Vanilla | large genus of tropical climbing orchids |
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Meaning | large genus of tropical climbing orchids; Old and New Worlds. | |
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Member of | Orchidaceae, family Orchidaceae, orchid family | enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks / rootstocks and unusual flowers |
Members | vanilla | 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 |
vanilla orchid, Vanilla planifolia | A climbing orchid bearing a podlike fruit yielding vanilla beans | |
Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
Spanish | genus vanilla | |
Catalan | genus vanilla |
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