† vanelln.
Obsolete. rare.
1. A vanilla pod.
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vanilla1662
vanell1703
vanilla bean1886
vanilla pod1887
1703 London Gaz. No. 3891/3 The Cargo..consisting of..Cocoa, Venelles,..Silk Grass,..Ebbone and Logwood, &c.
1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 101 Vanilla, or Vanells, are the fruit of a ligneous siliquose vine.
2. Vanilla.
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ambrette1745
vanell1790
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1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 165 One case of vanel, sixty cases of sugar.
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