† vanel(l Obs. rare.
Also venelle.
[Anglicized f. vanilla or vanille.]
a. A vanilla pod. b. Vanilla.
| 1703 Lond. 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. 1790 Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. I. 165 One case of vanel, sixty cases of sugar. |