tortoise shell

mottled, flexible, brownish material made from the shells of turtles
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tortoise shell

Summary

tortoise shell ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (96 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • tortoise shell's image is recorded as Peigne en écaille.jpg[2].
  • tortoise shell's GND ID is recorded as 4403338-2[3].
  • tortoise shell's subclass of is recorded as animal product[4].
  • tortoise shell's Commons category is recorded as Tortoiseshell[5].
  • tortoise shell's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0f2jw5[6].
  • tortoise shell's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300011837[7].
  • tortoise shell's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[8].
  • tortoise shell's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[9].
  • tortoise shell's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10].
  • tortoise shell's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[11].
  • tortoise shell's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as art/tortoiseshell-ornament[12].
  • tortoise shell's natural product of taxon is recorded as Testudines[13].
  • tortoise shell's Europeana Fashion Vocabulary ID is recorded as 10583[14].
  • tortoise shell's PACTOLS thesaurus ID is recorded as pcrt4dfh8e5Dpz[15].
  • tortoise shell's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 150664415[16].
  • tortoise shell's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3983762[17].
  • tortoise shell's Grove Art Online ID is recorded as T085766[18].
  • tortoise shell's RKD thesaurus ID is recorded as 54850[19].
  • tortoise shell's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 14782599-n[20].
  • tortoise shell's Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID is recorded as materias/1029616[21].
  • tortoise shell's Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID is recorded as materias/1000408[22].
  • tortoise shell's Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID is recorded as numismatica/1186348[23].
  • tortoise shell's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 3810[24].

Why It Matters

tortoise shell ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (96 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[25] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[26]

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  19. [20] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [25] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [26] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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