vanillas
Sayvuh-NIL-uhz/vəˈnɪl.əz/
- 1Plural of vanilla.
The bakery tested several vanillas before choosing one for its cakes.
Tropical vanillas grow as climbing orchids in humid forests.
Note
A plural that only some meanings of vanilla can take. The orchids and their beans count easily, and so does the slang use for people who are not into fetishism. The extract and its flavor are mass nouns, so vanillas there means distinct kinds or varieties. A baker comparing several vanillas is comparing products, not counting units of flavor.
vanillas is a form of vanilla
vanilla, noun: The distinctive fragrant flavor that is characteristic of extract drawn from vanilla beans. Full entry
- Forms
- vanillavanillas plural
- Spelling
- vanilla → vanillas: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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