]> 2009/04/07 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2009 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. Mappings between OpenCyc terms and Wikipedia article names provided by Olena Medelyan and Catherine Legg, University of Waikato, NZ under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. vegetable matter VegetableMatter A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVWpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NaturalTangibleStuff</a> and #$OrganicStuff. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjEVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VegetableMatter</a> is a piece of stuff (solid, liquid, or, improbably but conceivably, gaseous) which is a piece of vegetable material. Important specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjEVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VegetableMatter</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjG4ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Plant</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViSPpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PlantProduct</a>. plant material

Biomass

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomass http://www.w3.org/2006/03/wn/wn20/instances/synset-plant_material-noun-1 Rice-Foodstuff rice Foods consisting of rice; may be in the form of grains, rice flour, or other forms, so long as it is wholly or mainly rice. A portion of the white flesh inside coconuts; good to eat; the flesh in a single coconut forms part of its endosperm. CoconutMeat coconut meat Wheat-Foodstuff The collection of all wheat berries. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rSMVUuimDEdqAAAACs2IMmw" class="cyc_term">CommonFoodAllergen</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjEVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VegetableMatter</a>. wheat berry A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViSPpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PlantProduct</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVimxJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Wood</a> is a piece of solid, rigid, fibrous organic substance in or <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViVmZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">derivedFrom</a> (q.v.) the inside of the trunks and limbs of trees. Specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVimxJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Wood</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwPRtUZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Firewood</a>, (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVio85wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WoodFn</a> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjB35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OakTree</a>) and (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVio85wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WoodFn</a> <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwPvUq5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CherryTree</a>). wood Wood peat-dried The collection of all pieces of peat after they have been dried out. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVitW5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CombustibleFuelSubstance</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjEVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VegetableMatter</a>. Peat-Dried straw the dried stems of grasses. Straw CoconutMilk A portion of the liquid from the inside of coconuts; the liquid in a single coconut forms part of its endosperm. coconut milk fruit and vegetable food group A specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkI75wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EdibleStuff</a> and an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVidHJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FoodGroup</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjmFpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FruitOrVegetableFood</a> is a fruit or a vegetable. FruitOrVegetableFood Thatch-BuildingMaterial thatch A kind of building material formed by layering straw, water reed, or other suitable instances of vegetable matter (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjEVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VegetableMatter</a>, q.v.) used in the construction of roofs. See also <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r_icWqt4YEdqAAAACs71DGQ" class="cyc_term">Thatching</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r-IBXmt4bEdqAAAACs71DGQ" class="cyc_term">ThatchedRoof</a>. Seasonings used to add flavor to food Spice seasoning plant Plant The collection of all individual plants, an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjf5JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OrganismClassificationType</a> and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rv8gyOpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">EukaryoticOrganism</a>. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjG4ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Plant</a> is a member of the <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViYmpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">BiologicalKingdom</a> and contains the primary subjects of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVir9pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Botany</a>. The instances of this collections are typically stationary, living, whole organisms; the cells of plants generally lack cholesterol and have cell walls that include substances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWB3VpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Cellulose</a>. Most, though not all, plants are capable of making sugars by <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVkC15wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Photosynthesis_Plant</a> processes and have green parts. Some example subsets of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjG4ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Plant</a> are the collections <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVia8JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">RoseBush</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvgEb-pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpruceTree</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVijT5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Moss</a>. Cut and dried herbage (e.g., grass, clover, alfalfa) used as animal feed. Hay hay The collection of all instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r_4bScKNtQdiVw7XtX-HN0Q" class="cyc_term">ClarifyingCollectionType</a> that are used by the #$KRAKEN application to resolve natural language ambiguities. KE clarifying collection type KEClarifyingCollectionType Wikipedia Article URL (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rNv0nbm4TTjOp7yhmnzOyqg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleURL</a> THING URL) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article located at URL wikipediaArticleURL seeAlsoURI <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4riWVFR6HJSpaEaHrcWS3MSA" class="cyc_term">seeAlsoURI</a> THING URI)</code> means that a description of the resource identified by URI is likely to contain information pertinent to THING. This predicate is roughly equivalent to rdfs:seeAlso. See Also URI Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString vegetable matter VegetableMatter A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVWpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NaturalTangibleStuff</a> and #$OrganicStuff. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjEVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VegetableMatter</a> is a piece of stuff (solid, liquid, or, improbably but conceivably, gaseous) which is a piece of vegetable material. Important specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjEVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VegetableMatter</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjG4ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Plant</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViSPpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PlantProduct</a>. vegetable matter VegetableMatter A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVWpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NaturalTangibleStuff</a> and #$OrganicStuff. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjEVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VegetableMatter</a> is a piece of stuff (solid, liquid, or, improbably but conceivably, gaseous) which is a piece of vegetable material. Important specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjEVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VegetableMatter</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjG4ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Plant</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViSPpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PlantProduct</a>. vegetable matter VegetableMatter A specialization of both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVWpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NaturalTangibleStuff</a> and #$OrganicStuff. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjEVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VegetableMatter</a> is a piece of stuff (solid, liquid, or, improbably but conceivably, gaseous) which is a piece of vegetable material. Important specializations of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjEVZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">VegetableMatter</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjG4ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Plant</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViSPpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PlantProduct</a>. ExistingStuffType type of temporally and spatially stuff-like thing A collection of collections, and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVitN5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">TemporalStuffType</a>. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a> is a collection of things (including portions of things) which are both temporally and spatially stufflike. Division in time or space does not destroy the stufflike quality of the object (down to a certain granularity). <code>(<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViBBJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">isa</a> STUFFTYPE <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>)</code> implies both (i) for most instances <code>STUFF</code> of <code>STUFFTYPE</code>, for any proper physical part (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4r8a2smPXcQdiEoJhcx65EiQ" class="cyc_term">properPhysicalDecompositions</a>) <code>PART</code> of <code>STUFF</code>, <code>PART</code> is also an instance of <code>STUFFTYPE</code> and (ii) for all instances <code>STUFF</code> of <code>STUFFTYPE</code>, for most proper physical parts <code>PART</code> of <code>STUFF</code>, <code>PART</code> is also an instance of <code>STUFFTYPE</code>. For example, every piece of wood is temporally stufflike: if W-168 is a piece of wood during 1996, then it's also a piece of wood for the one-minute time-slice 9:05am 7/7/96. It's also spatially stufflike: if we take that piece of wood W-168 and cut it in half, we have two things which are both pieces of wood. Since every piece of wood is both temporally and spatially stufflike, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVimxJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Wood</a> is an instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a>. Other instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVny6pwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingStuffType</a> include the collections #$AppleJuice, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVj1EpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">IceCream</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvgC2UJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Diamond</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwQCaCZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">WaxedPaper</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rwAoze5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StriatedMuscle</a>. See the comment for <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> to learn more about the distinctions between, and the need for, these four collections: <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVirnZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ObjectType</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWXYgJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ExistingObjectType</a>. wikipediaArticleName (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rTv-jk9SPTXa991kk5mAvHg" class="cyc_term">wikipediaArticleName</a> THING NAME) means that in <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtqXA6OC8QdiWC72DuLJdUw" class="cyc_term">Wikipedia_WebSite</a> THING is described by an article with the title NAME Wikipedia Article Name OrganicMaterial organic substance A collection of tangible things. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjD0JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OrganicMaterial</a> is a tangible thing composed of one or more types of organic <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjwspwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Molecule</a>. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjD0JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OrganicMaterial</a> usually have their origin in the bodies (or other products) of living things. Since some organic substances can be synthesized, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjD0JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OrganicMaterial</a> is not a subcollection of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjVWpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">NaturalTangibleStuff</a>. Chemically, instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjD0JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">OrganicMaterial</a> have fairly (or very) complex carbon-based structures. Examples include all instances of the collections <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjZ6ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Oil</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvWXHLJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">DNAStuff</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVim-JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Alcohol_Compound</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvVjL-5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Ivory</a>, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rvViAHJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AnimalBodyPart</a>. foodstuffs-food-topic A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rAmoSCGJbQdiSXZJvYiNhkQ" class="cyc_term">CycVocabularyTopic</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/concept/Mx4rtGXkHpNaEdqAAAACs0uFOQ" class="cyc_term">KBDependentCollection</a>. Foodstuffs-Food-Topic