1. a climbing orchid bearing a podlike fruit yielding vanilla beans; widely cultivated from Florida southward throughout tropical America; [syn: vanilla orchid, Vanilla planifolia]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
vanilla orchid
n 1: a climbing orchid bearing a podlike fruit yielding vanilla
beans; widely cultivated from Florida southward throughout
tropical America [syn: vanilla orchid, Vanilla
planifolia]