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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Katherine Larson
july 16, Literary Hub, 16 July 2025
Plimsoll Productions, the company behind natural history titles such as Apple’s Tiny World and Disney+’s A Bug’s Life, is fishing for a U.S. sale of its shark infested reality competition series.
—Peter White, Deadline, 14 July 2025
Soon, magazines like Godey’s Ladies Book and Youth’s Companion were running articles on natural history and geography.
—Jessica George, JSTOR Daily, 25 June 2025
If such cancers had been regularly caught this early before, their natural histories might be charted.
—Siddhartha Mukherjee, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
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“Natural history.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/natural%20history. Accessed 22 Jul. 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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