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 (9,188 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• sheep's instance of is recorded as organisms known by a particular common name^[3].
• sheep is a type of domesticated mammal^[4].
• sheep is a type of productive animal^[5].
• sheep is a type of herbivore^[6].
• sheep is a type of ruminant^[7].
• sheep is used for meat^[8].
• sheep is used for milk^[9].
• sheep is used for wool^[10].
• sheep's Commons category is recorded as Sheep^[11].
• sheep's Unicode character is recorded as 🐑^[12].
• sheep's Unicode character is recorded as 🐏^[13].
• sheep comprises domesticated sheep^[14].
• sheep comprises Ovis^[15].
• sheep's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Sheep^[16].
• sheep's described by source is recorded as Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus^[17].
• sheep's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language^[18].
• sheep's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[19].
• sheep's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[20].
• sheep's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary^[21].
• sheep's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[22].
• sheep's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[23].
• sheep's described by source is recorded as Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste^[24].
• sheep's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[25].
• sheep's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge^[26].
• sheep's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)^[27].

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Identifiers

sheep's ITIS TSN is recorded as 552475^[28].

Discovery and Description

Things named for sheep include Milky Way^[29], a barred spiral galaxy^[30] and Sheep Meadow^[31], a meadow^[32], in United States^[33].

Why It Matters

sheep ranks in the top 4% of organisms_known_by_a_particular_common_name entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9,188 views/month).^[2] sheep has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] sheep is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]

Entities named for sheep include Milky Way^[29], a barred spiral galaxy^[30] and Sheep Meadow^[31], a meadow^[32], in United States^[33].