sheep

domesticated ruminant bred for meat, wool, and milk
Taxon organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name Q7368
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sheep

Summary

sheep is an organisms known by a particular common name[1]. sheep ranks in the top 4% of organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,931 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • sheep's video is recorded as DreibornerHochflächeSchafherde.webm[3].
  • sheep's image is recorded as Flock of sheep.jpg[4].
  • sheep's image is recorded as Sheep skeleton at MAV-USP.jpg[5].
  • sheep's image is recorded as Yorkshire dales sheep.jpg[6].
  • sheep's image is recorded as Berå Tirehaline x Timhadite.jpg[7].
  • sheep's image is recorded as Sheep grazing on grass.jpg[8].
  • sheep's instance of is recorded as organisms known by a particular common name[9].
  • sheep's audio is recorded as Sheep bleating.ogg[10].
  • sheep's GND ID is recorded as 4051990-9[11].
  • sheep's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85121208[12].
  • sheep's subclass of is recorded as domesticated mammal[13].
  • sheep's subclass of is recorded as productive animal[14].
  • sheep's subclass of is recorded as herbivore[15].
  • sheep's subclass of is recorded as ruminant[16].
  • sheep's has use is recorded as meat[17].
  • sheep's has use is recorded as milk[18].
  • sheep's has use is recorded as wool[19].
  • sheep's Commons category is recorded as Sheep[20].
  • sheep's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q8752 (eus)-Xabier Cañas-ardi.wav[21].
  • sheep's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q5218 (que)-Eavq-Uwiha.wav[22].
  • sheep's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q33965 (sat)-Ramjit Tudu-ᱵᱷᱤᱰᱤ.wav[23].
  • sheep's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D012756[24].
  • sheep's Unicode character is recorded as 🐑[25].
  • sheep's Unicode character is recorded as 🐏[26].
  • sheep's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 13524[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for sheep include Milky Way[28], a barred spiral galaxy[29] and Sheep Meadow[30], a meadow[31], in United States[32].

Why It Matters

sheep ranks in the top 4% of organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,931 views/month).[2] sheep has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] sheep is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Entities named for sheep include Milky Way[28], a barred spiral galaxy[29] and Sheep Meadow[30], a meadow[31], in United States[32].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Library of Congress Control Number. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . lingualibre.fr. lingualibre.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . lingualibre.fr. lingualibre.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . lingualibre.org. lingualibre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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