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natural history

noun

  1. the sciences, as botany, mineralogy, or zoology, dealing with the study of all objects in nature: used especially in reference to the beginnings of these sciences in former times.
  2. the study of these sciences.


natural history

noun

  1. the study of animals and plants in the wild state
  2. the study of all natural phenomena
  3. the sum of these phenomena in a given place or at a given time

    the natural history of Iran

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natural history

  1. The study and description of living things and natural objects, especially their origins, evolution, and relationships to one another. Natural history includes the sciences of zoology, mineralogy, geology, and paleontology.


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Derived Forms

  • natural historian, noun
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Other Words From

  • natural historian noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of natural history1

First recorded in 1560–70
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Example Sentences

Experts on the geography and natural history of their boroughs, they are responsible for environmental education and park management.

He pursued natural history in his spare time and participated in numerous expeditions.

If you strike out searching on your own, you can probably find fascinating examples of fluorescence at your local natural history museum.

Unlike Helen Macdonald in her exquisite and highly personal memoir, “H Is for Hawk,” Meiburg gives us the striated caracara as a way to explore natural history and to consider the work of Charles Darwin and William Henry Hudson.

It was about the relationship as well as the natural history.

Situated in hipster Hackney, the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History opens to the public on Wednesday.

Museums of natural history display the biggest meteorites, tallest dinosaurs, and millipedes with the most legs.

So was Thomas Monath, the doctor who had just unraveled the natural history of Lassa fever.

It also may relate to our still primitive understanding of the natural history of Ebola virus infection.

According to Dr. Norell, the American Museum of Natural History has a strict policy regarding suspect fossils.

Herr Beske has always a great many orders from Europe to send over various objects of natural history.

It was in fact the only department of natural history in which any pains were taken and for which every assistance was rendered.

The veriest tyro in natural history would see that at the first glance of the massive skeleton.

In tracing the natural history of a public-house I have found the respectable dullards the most revolting of my subjects.

The chief buildings are the hydropathic and the Macfarlane museum of fine art and natural history.

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