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
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the natural history of bees
We went to the Natural History Museum.
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One, set in a natural history museum, involves fossils; there’s a locked room mystery (with a mystery writer for a victim), which delights Patience, an Agatha Christie fan, and there’s a corpse that seemingly walks off a table in the morgue.
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Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
According to its website, founded in 1927 as a one-room natural history museum in The Pond House at Elizabeth Park in Hartford, The Children’s Museum is the fifth oldest children’s museum in the nation.
—Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2025
Exhibits also cover pirates and the natural history of the area.
missilesandmoremuseum.org, 720 Channel Blvd., Topsail Beach, NC 28445; 910-328-8663
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No family beach trip is complete without a round of mini-golf.
—Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025
Shows housed at the unit include NBC Universal’s natural history series The Americas, the forthcoming Walking with Dinosaurs for the BBC, and Nat Geo’s Tucci in Italy.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 May 2025
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Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2025
According to its website, founded in 1927 as a one-room natural history museum in The Pond House at Elizabeth Park in Hartford, The Children’s Museum is the fifth oldest children’s museum in the nation.
—Kaitlyn Keegan, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2025
Exhibits also cover pirates and the natural history of the area.
missilesandmoremuseum.org, 720 Channel Blvd., Topsail Beach, NC 28445; 910-328-8663
Play A Game Of Mini-Golf
No family beach trip is complete without a round of mini-golf.
—Grace Haynes, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2025
Shows housed at the unit include NBC Universal’s natural history series The Americas, the forthcoming Walking with Dinosaurs for the BBC, and Nat Geo’s Tucci in Italy.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 19 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for natural history
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“Natural history.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/natural%20history. Accessed 19 Jun. 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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