moulting

process by which an animal routinely casts off a part of its body
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moulting

Summary

moulting ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (548 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • moulting's video is recorded as Cicada Final Molt and Darkening timelapse 14 2021-05-27.webm[2].
  • moulting's image is recorded as Dragonfly metamorphosis.jpg[3].
  • moulting's image is recorded as Rod Gryllus.jpg[4].
  • moulting's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85086630[5].
  • moulting's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12398207q[6].
  • moulting's subclass of is recorded as biological process[7].
  • moulting's Commons category is recorded as Moult[8].
  • moulting's said to be the same as is recorded as Q12846774[9].
  • moulting's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D018978[10].
  • moulting's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 37867[11].
  • moulting's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01v1wd[12].
  • moulting's MeSH tree code is recorded as G07.345.500.550.750[13].
  • moulting's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14].
  • moulting's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • moulting's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[16].
  • moulting's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/molt[17].
  • moulting's different from is recorded as muda[18].
  • moulting's NALT ID is recorded as 9424[19].
  • moulting's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0282576[20].
  • moulting's Quora topic ID is recorded as Moulting[21].
  • moulting's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as molting[22].
  • moulting's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as fjærfelling[23].
  • moulting's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[24].
  • moulting's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 41905685[25].
  • moulting's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007541012205171[26].

Why It Matters

moulting ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (548 views/month).[1] moulting has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] moulting is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] . UMLS 2023. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
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  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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