natural history
noun
the sciences, as botany, mineralogy, or zoology, dealing with the study of all objects in nature: used especially in reference to the beginnings of these sciences in former times.
natural histories
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pluralof natural history.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Wedlich’s knack for unfolding these natural histories makes her book ooze with charm.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 28, 2023
We have natural histories of the heart and brain, the skin, the sensory organs.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2021
At best this can be termed "the extinction of experience," where our cultural and natural histories fade from our memories and therefore our reality.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2020
Inside a Joan Soranno-designed edifice that seems slightly retro-futurist, we learn about Alaska’s geologic and natural histories as well as that since the coming of man to these parts millennia ago.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 6, 2017
And yet I have read in many natural histories and have heard careful observers claim that the hole is dug first and the ball rolled in.
From Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 by Various
