whiskers

type of mammalian hair used for sensing
Thing hair_type Q913572
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whiskers

Summary

whiskers is a hair type[1]. whiskers draws 502 Wikipedia views per month (hair_type category, ranking #2 of 8).[2]

Key Facts

  • whiskers's image is recorded as Cats whiskers.jpg[3].
  • whiskers's image is recorded as Young tiger cub at Burgers' Zoo Arnhem.jpg[4].
  • whiskers's instance of is recorded as hair type[5].
  • whiskers's instance of is recorded as class of anatomical entity[6].
  • whiskers's subclass of is recorded as hair[7].
  • whiskers's Commons category is recorded as Vibrissae[8].
  • whiskers's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D014738[9].
  • whiskers's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 75409[10].
  • whiskers's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01l7qd[11].
  • whiskers's MeSH tree code is recorded as A13.950[12].
  • whiskers's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300011823[13].
  • whiskers's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • whiskers's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • whiskers's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/vibrissae[16].
  • whiskers's UBERON ID is recorded as 0006378[17].
  • whiskers's different from is recorded as Q16614737[18].
  • whiskers's UMLS CUI is recorded as C0042640[19].
  • whiskers's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as værhår[20].
  • whiskers's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 116134602[21].
  • whiskers's Lex ID is recorded as knurhår[22].
  • whiskers's KBpedia ID is recorded as Whisker[23].
  • whiskers's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 01904469-n[24].
  • whiskers's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C116134602[25].
  • whiskers's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C145065098[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for whiskers include Siluriformes[27], a taxon[28].

Why It Matters

whiskers draws 502 Wikipedia views per month (hair_type category, ranking #2 of 8).[2] whiskers has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] whiskers is known by 35 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for whiskers include Siluriformes[27], a taxon[28].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

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] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Uberon. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . WikiUMLS: Aligning UMLS to Wikipedia via Cross-lingual Neural Ranking. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . 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. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). whiskers. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/whiskers
MLA “whiskers.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/whiskers.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_whiskers_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{whiskers}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/whiskers}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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