VANILLA BEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vanilla bean mean? 

• VANILLA BEAN (noun)
  The noun VANILLA BEAN has 1 sense:

1. long bean-like fruit; seeds are used as flavoring

  Familiarity information: VANILLA BEAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VANILLA BEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Long bean-like fruit; seeds are used as flavoring

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("vanilla bean" is a kind of...):

flavorer; flavoring; flavourer; flavouring; seasoner; seasoning (something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts)

Meronyms (substance of "vanilla bean"):

vanillin (a crystalline compound found in vanilla beans and some balsam resins; used in perfumes and flavorings)

Holonyms ("vanilla bean" is a part of...):

vanilla orchid; Vanilla planifolia (a climbing orchid bearing a podlike fruit yielding vanilla beans; widely cultivated from Florida southward throughout tropical America)

Holonyms ("vanilla bean" is a substance of...):

vanilla; vanilla extract (a flavoring prepared from vanilla beans macerated in alcohol (or imitating vanilla beans))