Natural history is the study of animals and plants and other living things.
Schools regularly bring children to the beach for natural history lessons.
natural history in British English
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
Derived forms
natural historian
noun
natural history in American English
the study of zoology, botany, mineralogy, geology, and other subjects dealing with the physical world, esp. in a popular, nontechnical manner
Examples of 'natural history' in a sentence
natural history
The winding path down from the top of the building heads through millions of years of natural history.
The Sun (2016)
Putting natural history subjects behind him, he became a landscape painter.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It’s a wonderful natural history book, but it’s so much more than that.
Smithsonian Mag (2017)
It's imposing and dramatic - and can teach us a little about our natural history too.
The Sun (2017)
This is more of a miracle than a natural history programme.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
At times, natural history makes you feel ten years old again.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Many are technical about natural history and habitat, but there are social and economic ones too.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
But they were presented in the homely and familiar context of British natural history.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
If you take one message away from the anthropologist's natural history of disgust it should be that.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
I fear that this is also the way some still understand the long sweep of natural history.
Michael Boulter EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man (2002)
We're a bit ropey on art and natural history but other than that we are good to go.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The final point is that quicker access to services reduces rather than enhances the ability of people to learn about the natural history of minor complaints.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
I was mainly into natural history.
The Sun (2012)
The ghosts at Europe's natural history museums are rattling their chains.
Michael Boulter EXTINCTION: Evolution and the End of Man (2002)
The National Trust keeps this place for human and for natural history.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
When he talks about the passing of time - of how our natural history has made us what we are - you can almost hear him sighing.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
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British English: natural history NOUN
Natural history is the study of animals and plants and other living things.
Schools regularly bring children to the beach for natural history lessons.