seashell

hard, protective outer layer created by marine animal
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seashell

Summary

seashell ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (742 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • seashell's GND ID is recorded as 7673259-9[2].
  • seashell's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85121304[3].
  • seashell's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11936161d[4].
  • seashell's subclass of is recorded as animal product[5].
  • seashell's subclass of is recorded as exoskeleton[6].
  • seashell's subclass of is recorded as protective shell[7].
  • seashell's Commons category is recorded as Seashells[8].
  • seashell's Unicode character is recorded as 🐚[9].
  • seashell's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 12607[10].
  • seashell's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03bwz1j[11].
  • seashell's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Seashells[12].
  • seashell's Commons gallery is recorded as Seashell[13].
  • seashell's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300310135[14].
  • seashell's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300011829[15].
  • seashell's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 591.477[16].
  • seashell's PSH ID is recorded as 663[17].
  • seashell's depicted by is recorded as Nymph holding a shell[18].
  • seashell's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[19].
  • seashell's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20].
  • seashell's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • seashell's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/seashell[22].
  • seashell's UBERON ID is recorded as 0006612[23].
  • seashell's BBC Things ID is recorded as 778ad996-564d-490f-a150-684fa43d6848[24].
  • seashell's different from is recorded as Muszla[25].
  • seashell's different from is recorded as eggshell[26].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for seashell include Astrolabe[27], a gabarre[28], founded in 1811[29]; seashell[30], a color[31]; and BTR-MD[32], a combat vehicle model[33].

Why It Matters

seashell ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (742 views/month).[1] seashell has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] seashell is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Entities named for seashell include Astrolabe[27], a gabarre[28], founded in 1811[29]; seashell[30], a color[31]; and BTR-MD[32], a combat vehicle model[33].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . britannica.com. britannica.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . Uberon. wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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