glowworm

common name for various groups of insect larvae and adult larviform females that glow through bioluminescence
Taxon organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name Q3248829
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glowworm

Summary

glowworm is an organisms known by a particular common name[1]. glowworm draws 466 Wikipedia views per month (organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name category, ranking #178 of 423).[2]

Key Facts

  • glowworm's image is recorded as Glow worms.jpg[3].
  • glowworm's image is recorded as Glow worm 660030626 crop.png[4].
  • glowworm's instance of is recorded as organisms known by a particular common name[5].
  • glowworm's subclass of is recorded as insect[6].
  • glowworm's Commons category is recorded as Glowworms[7].
  • glowworm's said to be the same as is recorded as Lampyridae[8].
  • glowworm's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03m2y5[9].
  • glowworm's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10].
  • glowworm's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as animal/glowworm[11].
  • glowworm's BBC Things ID is recorded as 725c7c6e-8274-4fb3-89c2-1ac576ff2c21[12].
  • glowworm's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2778247445[13].
  • glowworm's Klexikon article ID is recorded as Glühwürmchen[14].
  • glowworm's taxon known by this common name is recorded as Lampyridae[15].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for glowworm include Medicago sativa[16], a taxon[17] and Firefly algorithm[18], an algorithm[19].

Why It Matters

glowworm draws 466 Wikipedia views per month (organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name category, ranking #178 of 423).[2] glowworm is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Entities named for glowworm include Medicago sativa[16], a taxon[17] and Firefly algorithm[18], an algorithm[19].

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] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [16] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [18] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [17] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [19] . 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. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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