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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In addition to inventing the literary genre of nonsense, Lear was a gifted natural history artist who became particularly famous for his illustrations of birds.
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Caroline Carlson
june 30, Literary Hub, 30 June 2025
These fossils, possibly brought by ancient trade networks, suggest a fascinating intersection of natural history and human activity.
—Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 27 June 2025
This bird may yet teach scientists valuable lessons for conserving them, and other endangered species, too, through the presence of specimens in natural history museum collections.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
The state's natural history bonanza ranges from rolling sand dunes spilling into Lake Michigan and one of the country's longest underground rivers to ancient fossil beds along the Ohio River and a high-point that's, well, really not much more than a hill.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 15 Apr. 2025
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Caroline Carlson
june 30, Literary Hub, 30 June 2025
These fossils, possibly brought by ancient trade networks, suggest a fascinating intersection of natural history and human activity.
—Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 27 June 2025
This bird may yet teach scientists valuable lessons for conserving them, and other endangered species, too, through the presence of specimens in natural history museum collections.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
The state's natural history bonanza ranges from rolling sand dunes spilling into Lake Michigan and one of the country's longest underground rivers to ancient fossil beds along the Ohio River and a high-point that's, well, really not much more than a hill.
—Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 15 Apr. 2025
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“Natural history.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/natural%20history. Accessed 13 Jul. 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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