natural history

noun

1. 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.
2. the study of these sciences.

natural history

noun

1. the study of animals and plants in the wild state
2. the study of all natural phenomena
3. the sum of these phenomena in a given place or at a given time

   the natural history of Iran

natural history

1. 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.

Derived Forms

• natural historian, noun

Other Words From

• natural historian noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of natural history¹

First recorded in 1560–70

Example Sentences

Experts on the geography and natural history of their boroughs, they are responsible for environmental education and park management.

From Outside Online

He pursued natural history in his spare time and participated in numerous expeditions.

From Nautilus

If you strike out searching on your own, you can probably find fascinating examples of fluorescence at your local natural history museum.

From Popular-Science

Unlike Helen Macdonald in her exquisite and highly personal memoir, “H Is for Hawk,” Meiburg gives us the striated caracara as a way to explore natural history and to consider the work of Charles Darwin and William Henry Hudson.

From Washington Post

It was about the relationship as well as the natural history.

From Nautilus

Situated in hipster Hackney, the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History opens to the public on Wednesday.

From The Daily Beast

Museums of natural history display the biggest meteorites, tallest dinosaurs, and millipedes with the most legs.

From The Daily Beast

So was Thomas Monath, the doctor who had just unraveled the natural history of Lassa fever.

From The Daily Beast

It also may relate to our still primitive understanding of the natural history of Ebola virus infection.

From The Daily Beast

According to Dr. Norell, the American Museum of Natural History has a strict policy regarding suspect fossils.

From The Daily Beast

Herr Beske has always a great many orders from Europe to send over various objects of natural history.

From Project Gutenberg

It was in fact the only department of natural history in which any pains were taken and for which every assistance was rendered.

From Project Gutenberg

The veriest tyro in natural history would see that at the first glance of the massive skeleton.

From Project Gutenberg

In tracing the natural history of a public-house I have found the respectable dullards the most revolting of my subjects.

From Project Gutenberg

The chief buildings are the hydropathic and the Macfarlane museum of fine art and natural history.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• environment
• landscape
• view
• world