natural history
noun
1
: a treatise on some aspect of nature
2
: the natural development of something (such 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
Examples of natural history in a Sentence
the natural history of bees
We went to the Natural History Museum.
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This was a period during which a craze for collecting unusual and exceptional cultural and natural history items from across the globe and displaying them in private homes swept Europe.
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Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
The walk includes information on the natural history of the river and its surrounding wildlife and is open to 10 participants each week.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
But unicorn horns lingered on in both the imagination and in the material sense, right there on display in the collections and cabinets of curiosities, or Wunderkammer, that were one of the private precursors of natural history museums.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Apr. 2025
Here, amid the shelves filled with natural history objets d’art, guests can while away an hour with a glass of chenin blanc and a tome on South Africa’s one-of-a-kind flora.
—Jennifer Flowers, AFAR Media, 3 Apr. 2025
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Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
The walk includes information on the natural history of the river and its surrounding wildlife and is open to 10 participants each week.
—Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
But unicorn horns lingered on in both the imagination and in the material sense, right there on display in the collections and cabinets of curiosities, or Wunderkammer, that were one of the private precursors of natural history museums.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 5 Apr. 2025
Here, amid the shelves filled with natural history objets d’art, guests can while away an hour with a glass of chenin blanc and a tome on South Africa’s one-of-a-kind flora.
—Jennifer Flowers, AFAR Media, 3 Apr. 2025
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“Natural history.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/natural%20history. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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natural history
noun
: the natural development of something (as an organism or disease) over a period of time
increasing knowledge of the natural histories of tumors—H. S. N. Greene
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