"Bigger lakes may increase the risk of catastrophic dam failure," Joseph Shea, a glacier hydrologist at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada, told the magazine Science.
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Shea
//ʃeɪ//
Synonyms for "shea" (8 found)
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Noun(2 words)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (4)
Noun(3 words)
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2 entriesRelated terms
3 entriesderived
1 entriesrelated to
7 entriesTranslations
81 translations across 43 languages.
Adele
1 entries- dɩdɩnpɔ noun (tree)
Adja
1 entries- ayɔ noun (tree)
Ashe
1 entries- ijajar noun (tree)
Bafanji
1 entries- mbʉʉ noun (tree)
Bambara
1 entries- kɔlɔ noun (fruit)
Basaa
1 entries- njàp noun (tree)
Bissa
2 entries- kur noun (tree)
- ɲɔɔr noun (fruit)
Buli (Ghana)
4 entries- bagiak noun (fruit)
- bakesing noun (fruit)
- cham noun (tree)
- jigsidi noun (fruit)
Catalan
1 entries- karité noun (tree)
Cerma
2 entries- berre noun (fruit)
- musɛ̃lle noun (fruit)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 乳油木 noun (tree)
Chumburung
4 entries- ke̱le̱ŋpɔ noun (fruit)
- kigyamuree noun (fruit)
- kigyamwee noun (fruit)
- kuroŋku noun (tree)
Dagbani
1 entries- taani noun (fruit)
Dutch
1 entries- Sheaboom noun (tree)
Dyula
4 entries- kɔlɔ noun (fruit)
- si noun (tree)
- sikɔlɔ noun (fruit)
- simɔ noun (fruit)
Esperanto
1 entries- buterarbo noun (tree)
Farefare
1 entries- tã'aŋa noun (tree)
Finnish
2 entries- voipuu noun (tree)
- voipuun pähkinä noun (fruit)
French
1 entries- karité noun (tree)
Fula
3 entries- haareere noun (fruit)
- holoore noun (fruit)
- kaareehi noun (tree)
Fungwa
1 entries- jígò noun (tree)
German
1 entries- Karitébaum noun (tree)
Gourmanché
4 entries- sàngbángu noun (fruit)
- sànguoli noun (fruit)
- sànkpèbu noun (fruit)
- sànkááli noun (fruit)
Hausa
2 entries- kaɗanya noun (tree)
- kaɗanya noun (fruit)
Ifè
1 entries- kpótsa noun (fruit)
Ifé
1 entries- ɛmɛ noun (tree)
Italian
1 entries- karité noun (tree)
Japanese
1 entries- シアーバターノキ noun (tree)
Kabiye
4 entries- aga noun (fruit)
- cʋnɛ noun (fruit)
- somuu noun (tree)
- sʋŋgbaɖʋʋ noun (fruit)
Kasem
4 entries- baguə noun (fruit)
- swɛn noun (fruit)
- sɔŋɔ noun (tree)
- sɩʋ noun (fruit)
Lela
1 entries- rìgá̱ noun (tree)
Lithuanian
1 entries- afrikinis sviestmedis noun (tree)
Mbelime
2 entries- càǹbù noun (tree)
- wùòfɛ̀ noun (fruit)
Moore
4 entries- taamde noun (fruit)
- taanga noun (tree)
- zoonfo noun (fruit)
- zũunfu noun (fruit)
Nawuri
1 entries- kʋdʋnpɔɔ noun (tree)
Nkonya
1 entries- klenku oyi noun (tree)
Portuguese
1 entries- carité noun (tree)
Russian
1 entries- де́рево Ши noun (tree)
Saxwe Gbe
2 entries- limikun noun (fruit)
- limitin noun (tree)
Senoufo Djimini
4 entries- letige noun (tree)
- logolo noun (fruit)
- logombyɔ noun (fruit)
- lopɛrɛgɛ noun (fruit)
Spanish
1 entries- karité noun (tree)
Swedish
2 entries- sheanöt noun (fruit)
- sheanötsträd noun (tree)
Turka
2 entries- mũsũɔ̃gu noun (tree)
- viiri noun (fruit)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Shea had gone to bed and I should have followed suit, for we are always in the saddle here before sunrise; but instead I sat there before the chess table in the library, idly blowing smoke at the dishonored head of my defeated king.
Source: tatoeba (11532904)
Shea said that information is best conveyed through public health campaigns that also stress the importance of handwashing, personal hygiene and self-quarantine in high-transmission areas.
Source: tatoeba (12251530)
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.
Source: wiktionary
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