> I guess that'd have to be an Americanism then.
After a bit of hunting both hard-copy and on-line dictionaries, yes, it is. I've tracked it as far back as the early 1990s, and it seems to have mainly spread as a bit of computing jargon. So us hackers use it, and presumably you biologists don't - or rather, know the Real meaning, so keep to that.
I never knew vanilla came from an orchid. I thought it came from a bottle labelled "vanilla extract". And as a supposed cook, I should be ashamed of myself :(
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