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Vanilla vs Blancmange - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between vanilla and blancmange

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 blancmange is a simple dessert made by cooking sweetened milk with cornstarch and vanilla.

As an adjective vanilla

is of vanilla.

vanilla

English

(wikipedia vanilla)

Noun

  • (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.

    • Derived terms

    * Cuban vanilla * vanilla grass

    Synonyms

    * (bean) vanilla bean * (extract) vanilla extract * (artificial extract) imitation vanilla

    Adjective

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  • Of .
  • Standard, plain, default, unmodified, basic.
  • (label) Not kinky, not involving BDSM.
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  • Plain; conventional; unimaginative.

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    blancmange

    English

    (wikipedia blancmange)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A simple dessert made by cooking sweetened milk with cornstarch and vanilla
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