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| blancmange |
a white, sweet milk pudding, thickened with cornstarch or gelatin and flavored with vanilla or rum. |
| cherries jubilee |
a dessert made of vanilla ice cream topped with a sauce of black cherries and served flambé with brandy or kirsch. |
| cream soda |
a soft drink, lightly colored, of vanilla flavor. |
| tonka bean |
the fragrant seed of a tropical South American tree, used as a substitute for vanilla and in perfumes and snuff. [1/2 definitions] |
| vanilla |
the podlike fruit of this plant, used as a flavoring or extracted for flavoring or fragrance; vanilla bean. [2/4 definitions] |
| vanilla bean |
the long, narrow seedpod of the orchid plant vanilla, used in making the food flavoring called vanilla. |
| vanillin |
a fragrant white crystalline compound obtained from the vanilla bean or prepared synthetically, used as a flavoring and in perfumes. |
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