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natural history

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natural history
n.
1. The study and description of organisms and natural objects, especially their origins, evolution, and interrelationships.
2.
a. A collection of facts about the development of a natural process or entity: the natural history of early hominids as revealed in the fossil record.
b. A work or treatise containing such facts.

natural history
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) the study of animals and plants in the wild state
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) the study of all natural phenomena
3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) the sum of these phenomena in a given place or at a given time the natural history of Iran
natural historian  n

natural history
The study and description of living things and natural objects, especially their origins, evolution, and relationships to one another. Natural history includes the sciences of zoology, mineralogy, geology, and paleontology.
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Noun1.natural historynatural history - the scientific study of plants or animals (more observational than experimental) usually published in popular magazines rather than in academic journals
science, scientific discipline - a particular branch of scientific knowledge; "the science of genetics"
Translations
natural history nstoria naturale
natural history nstoria naturale


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As I feel that the opportunities which I enjoyed of studying the Natural History of the different countries we visited, have been wholly due to Captain Fitz Roy, I hope I may here be permitted to repeat my expression of gratitude to him; and to add that, during the five years we were together, I received from him the most cordial friendship and steady assistance.
In virtue of my office as Assistant Professor in the Museum of Natural History in Paris, the French Government had attached me to that expedition.
I told him my name, Edward Prendick, and how I had taken to Natural History as a relief from the dulness of my comfortable independence.
 
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