vanilla planifolia

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   a climbing orchid bearing a podlike fruit yielding vanilla beans; widely cultivated from Florida southward throughout tropical America

   Synonymsvanilla orchid

   Broadervanilla

   Part ofgenus Vanilla

   Partsvanilla bean

Questions about vanilla planifolia

What does vanilla planifolia mean?

vanilla planifolia means "a climbing orchid bearing a podlike fruit yielding vanilla beans; widely cultivated from Florida southward throughout tropical America".

What is another word for vanilla planifolia?

Close synonyms include vanilla orchid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vanilla planifolia a common word?

vanilla planifolia 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.