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The word Vanilla comes from the Spanish word "vainilla", diminutive form of "vaina" (meaning "sheath"), which is in turn derived from Latin "vagina".

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It derives from the early Spanish word for pod: "vainilla" which in itself is a diminutive of the Spanish term vaina ("sheath") and originally back to the latin word vagina.

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