shea

See also Shea

English

Noun

shea (uncountable)

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

Synonyms

• (tree): shea tree, vitellaria, karité, Butyrospermum parkii, B. paradoxa
• (fruit): shea nut

Derived terms

• shea butter

Translations

tree

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 乳油木 (cmn)

• Dutch: Sheaboom (nl) m
• Esperanto: buterarbo (eo)
• Finnish: voipuu (fi)
• French: karité (fr)
• German: Karitébaum (de) m

• Italian: karité (it) f
• Japanese: シアーバターノキ (ja) (shiābatāno-ki)
• Lithuanian: afrikinis sviestmedis (lt)
• Portuguese: carité (pt) m
• Russian: дерево Ши (ru) (dérevo ši) n 
• Spanish: karité (es) m
• Swedish: sheanötsträd (sv) n

fruit

• Finnish: ‎voipuun pähkinä

• Swedish: sheanöt (sv) c

Anagrams

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