natural history

natural history
noun Date: 1567 1. a treatise on some aspect of nature 2. the natural development of something (as an organism or disease) over a period of time 3. the study of natural objects especially in the field from an amateur or popular point of view

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  • natural history — n [U] the study of plants, animals, and minerals ▪ the Natural History Museum …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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  • natural history — noun uncount the study of living things and their natural environments …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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  • Natural history — For other uses, see Natural history (disambiguation). Naturalist redirects here. For other uses, see Naturalist (disambiguation). Tables of natural history, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia Natural history is the scientific research of p …   Wikipedia

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