hay

dried grass, legumes or other herbaceous plants used as animal fodder
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hay

Summary

hay ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,830 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • hay is a type of herbaceous plant[2].
  • hay is a type of food and fodder[3].
  • hay is a type of grass[4].
  • hay is used for animal feed[5].
  • hay's Commons category is recorded as Hay[6].
  • hay's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Hay[7].
  • hay's Commons gallery is recorded as Hay[8].
  • hay's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • hay's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus[10].
  • hay's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11].
  • hay's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12].
  • hay's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • hay's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • hay's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[15].
  • hay's described by source is recorded as Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921[16].
  • hay's described by source is recorded as New International Encyclopedia[17].
  • hay's described by source is recorded as Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary[18].
  • hay's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[19].
  • hay's has characteristic is recorded as dehydration[20].
  • hay's natural product of taxon is recorded as Poaceae[21].
  • hay's different from is recorded as straw[22].
  • hay's fabrication method is recorded as haymaking[23].
  • hay's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002869[24].
  • hay's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[25].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include herbaceous plant[2], food and fodder[3], and grass[4].

Use and Application

hay is used for animal feed[5].

Influence

Things named for hay include July[26], a calendar month[27]; haybox[28]; Haymarket[29], a street[30], in United Kingdom[31]; Hötorget[32], a square[33], in Sweden[34]; Sennaya Square[35], a square[36], in Russia[37]; and Sienna Street[38], a street[39], in Poland[40].

Why It Matters

hay ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,830 views/month).[1] hay has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[41] hay is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

Entities named for hay include July[26], a calendar month[27]; haybox[28]; Haymarket[29], a street[30], in United Kingdom[31]; Hötorget[32], a square[33], in Sweden[34]; Sennaya Square[35], a square[36], in Russia[37]; and Sienna Street[38], a street[39], in Poland[40].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . Art & Architecture Thesaurus. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [26] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [29] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [32] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [35] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [38] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [36] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [37] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [39] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [41] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [42] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from straw
    Natural product of taxon Poaceae
    Subclass of herbaceous plant, food and fodder, grass
    Aliases
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 17783, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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