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All the good parts, none of the plant you had to kill to get them.
means To pull or draw something out — whether it's a tooth, a confession, a quote from a book, or the flavor compound from a vanilla bean.
from From Latin extrahere — ex- ('out') plus trahere ('to draw or pull'). The same trahere gives us 'traction,' 'tractor,' and 'abstract' (literally 'drawn away'). Extract entered English in the 1400s via its past participle extractus, 'that which has been drawn out,' first for pulling physical things (teeth, roots) before settling into its chemistry-and-literature sense of concentrated essence drawn from a larger whole.
- vanilla math
- one bean, gallons of alcohol, months of waiting
- legal use
- book or film excerpts also called extracts
- fake version
- imitation vanilla is just vanillin, no dragging required