| NOUN | plant | Vanilla planifolia, vanilla orchid | a climbing orchid bearing a podlike fruit yielding vanilla beans |
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| Meaning | A climbing orchid bearing a podlike fruit yielding vanilla beans; widely cultivated from Florida southward throughout tropical America. | |
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| Synonym | vanilla orchid | |
| Member of | genus Vanilla | large genus of tropical climbing orchids |
| Parts | vanilla bean | long bean-like fruit |
| Broader | 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 |
| Spanish | vainilla | |
| Catalan | vainilla | |
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