noun
1. Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla, especially V. planifolia, bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food, in perfumery, etc.
2. Also called "vanilla bean". The fruit or bean of this orchid.
3. The extract of this fruit.
adjective
4. Slang. Ordinary, generic, boring.
EX. I'll admit that a vanilla ice-cream ice-type version of the Diglett family was a lame idea, but they were trying to recapture the "magic" of the 1st Generation of Pokemon.
