Note: As a medicine, vanilla is supposed to possess powers analogous to valerian, while, at the same time, it is far more grateful. Cuban vanilla, a sweet-scented West Indian composite shrub (Eupatorium Dalea). — Vanilla bean, the long capsule of the vanilla plant. — Vanilla grass. Same as Holy grass, under Holy.
VANILLATE
Va*nil"late, n. (Chem.)
Defn: A salt of vanillic acid.
VANILLIC
Va*nil"lic, a. (Chem.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or derived from, vanilla or vanillin; resembling vanillin; specifically, designating an alcohol and an acid respectively, vanillin being the intermediate aldehyde.
VANILLIN
Va*nil"lin, n. (Chem.)
Defn: A white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. It is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol.
VANILLOES
Va*nil"loes, n. pl.
Defn: An inferior kind of vanilla, the pods of Vanilla Pompona.
VANILLYL
Va*nil"lyl, n. Etym: [Vanillic + -yl.] (Chem.)