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shi(ts)

Syllables: shi·tee·ess/ʃɪtiːɛs/

shi(ts) is the abbreviation of shibire(ts).

Meaning of shibire(ts)

Noun

shibire(ts) (uncountable)

  1. A gene variant, the temperature sensitive version of shibire
    Synonyms:
    shibirets, shits, shi(ts)

Synonyms of shi(ts)

Forms of shi(ts)

alternative formts

Origin of shi(ts)

Coined by Japanese-Canadian geneticist and zoologist David Suzuki

Words formed from shi(ts)

  • shi(ts1)
  • shi(ts2)

Words that rhyme with shi(ts)

25 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about shi(ts)

What is shi(ts) the abbreviation of?
Shi(ts) is the abbreviation of shibire(ts).
How do you pronounce shi(ts)?
Shi(ts) is pronounced /ʃɪtiːɛs/.

Words near shi(ts) in the dictionary

  1. Shi'ization
  2. Shi'ize
  3. Shi'ized
  4. Shi'izes
  5. Shi'izing
  6. shi(ts)
  7. Shi-jia-zhuang
  8. shi-shi
  9. Shi-Yomi
  10. Shia
  11. Shia Islam

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shi(ts) (page history and authors); shibire(ts) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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