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Shea¹

  • /ʃeɪ/

Sounds like chez, shay, Shay, Shaye · Rhymes with -eɪ

Where it comes from

Anglicised from Irish Ó Séaghdha.

proper noun

  1. A surname from Irish.
  2. A unisex given name transferred from the surname.

shea²

  • /ʃi/
  • /ʃeɪ/
  • /ʃi.ə/
  • /ʃɪə/

Rhymes with -iːə

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Bambara si.

noun sheas

  1. 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. 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, ever
  2. The fruit of this tree, having a thin, tart, nutritious pulp that surrounds a relatively large, oil-rich seed.

    Similar: shea nut

Similar: shea tree, vitellaria, Butyrospermum parkii, B. paradoxum

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: xia, chi, ballpark, shi, xie, chea, mcshea, shealy, sheehy, sheehan, o'shea, mcsheaffrey, sheilagh, shay, sheedy, shiley

noun

Similar: shea tree, vitellaria, Butyrospermum parkii, B. paradoxum

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noun tree

Españolkarité
日本語シアーバターノキ shiābatāno-ki
中文乳油木
Portuguêscarité
Françaiskarité
DeutschKaritébaum
Italianokarité
Русскийде́рево Ши dérevo Ši

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@misc{shea_2026,
  title = {shea},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shea},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}