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See also: Shea
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ʃi/, /ʃeɪ/[1], /ʃi.ə/, /ʃɪə/
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Noun[edit]
shea
- A tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) indigenous to Africa, occurring in Mali, Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Togo, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Burkina Faso and Uganda.
- 1799, Mungo Park, chapter XVI, in Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, pages 202–203:
- The people were every where employed in collecting the fruit of the Shea trees, from which they prepare the vegetable butter mentioned in former parts of this work. […] They are not planted by the natives, but are found growing naturally in the woods; and, in clearing wood land for cultivation, every tree is cut down but the Shea.
- The fruit of this tree, having a thin, tart, nutritious pulp that surrounds a relatively large, oil-rich seed.
- Synonym: shea nut
Synonyms[edit]
- (tree): shea tree, vitellaria; Butyrospermum parkii, B. paradoxum
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
tree
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fruit
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References[edit]
- ^ “shea”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Further reading[edit]
- Vitellaria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams[edit]
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Noun[edit]
shea
- Alternative form of shoo
- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:
- Shea's a gooude lickeen michel.
- She's a good-looking girl.
References[edit]
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 54
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