vanilla bean

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   long bean-like fruit; seeds are used as flavoring

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   Part ofvanilla orchid

Questions about vanilla bean

What does vanilla bean mean?

vanilla bean means "long bean-like fruit; seeds are used as flavoring".

Is vanilla bean a common word?

vanilla bean is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.