shea

From Bambara si.

• IPA^(key): /ʃi/, /ʃeɪ/[1], /ʃi.ə/, /ʃɪə/

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• Rhymes: -iːə

shea

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.
   • 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.

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

   Synonym: shea nut

• (tree): shea tree, vitellaria; Butyrospermum parkii, B. paradoxum

• shea butter

• Vitellaria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Ashe, Eash, HAES, HEAs, Hase, ashe, hase, seah

shea

1. 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.

• 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