Fruit vs Vanilla - What's the difference?
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(botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or advantageous result.
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* Bible, Isaiah iii. 10
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Offspring from a sexual union.
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(colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual or effeminate man.
(label) Any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially ), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.
(label) The fruit or bean of the vanilla plant.
(label) The extract of the fruit of the vanilla plant.
(label) The distinctive fragrant flavour/flavor characteristic of vanilla extract.
(label) Any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals.
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Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
(label) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
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Plain; conventional; unimaginative.
As nouns the difference between fruit and vanilla
is that fruit is the seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization while vanilla is any tropical, climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially species: Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.As a verb fruit
is to produce fruit.As an adjective vanilla is
of vanilla.fruit
English
(wikipedia fruit)Noun
(see for discussion of plural )- While cucumber is technically a fruit , one would not usually use it to make jam.
- Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
- His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
- the fruit of rashness
- They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- The fruits of this education became visible.
- The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
- King Edward's fruit , true heir to the English crown