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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Elaine Glusac, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2024
Our Most Popular Stories of 2022 Personality tests, street dogs, underwater treasures, and a natural history of dragons.
—JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024
The Florida Museum, a state natural history museum, puts the odds of being attacked by a shark at 1 in 11.5 million.
—Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 24 June 2024
Prime Video houses the acclaimed BBC natural history series Planet Earth.
—PCMAG, 4 June 2024
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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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