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.
