Vanilla vs Banana - What's the difference?
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(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.
An elongated curved fruit, which grows in bunches, and has a sweet creamy flesh and a smooth yellow skin.
The tropical treelike plant which bears clusters of bananas. The plant, of the genus Musa , has large, elongated leaves and is related to the plantain.
(uncountable) A yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.
(mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur) A person of Asian descent, especially a Chinese American, who has assimilated into Western culture or married a Caucasian (from the "yellow" outside and "white" inside). Compare .
Curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.
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In uncountable terms the difference between vanilla and banana
is that vanilla is any artificially produced homologue of vanilla extract, principally vanillin produced from lignin from the paper industry or from petrochemicals while banana is a yellow colour, like that of a banana's skin.As nouns the difference between vanilla and banana
is that 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 while banana is an elongated curved fruit, which grows in bunches, and has a sweet creamy flesh and a smooth yellow skin.As adjectives the difference between vanilla and banana
is that vanilla is of vanilla while banana is curved like a banana, especially of a ball in flight.As an acronym BANANA is
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English
(wikipedia vanilla)Noun
Derived terms
* Cuban vanilla * vanilla grassSynonyms
* (bean) vanilla bean * (extract) vanilla extract * (artificial extract) imitation vanillaAdjective
(more)Synonyms
* See alsobanana
English
(wikipedia banana)Noun
Synonyms
* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) jook-sing, TwinkieAntonyms
* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) egg (Western assimilated into Asian culture)Coordinate terms
* (Asian assimilated into Western culture) coconutDerived terms
* banana ball * banana bender * banana boat * banana bond * banana hammock * Bananaland * banana shot * banana paper * banana peel * banana pepper * banana plug * bananaquit * banana republic * bananas * bananas Foster * bananery * banana skin * banana split * banoffee * false banana * pink banana * scarlet banana * second banana * snow banana * top bananaAdjective
(-)- Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.
- He played the fading, low-banana shot as planned, and the ball whistled left of the oak tree and between the pines.
- [...]Bernd Schneider closed the scoring in injury-time with a 23 meter free-kick banana shot into the upper-right corner.