NATURAL HISTORY


Meaning of NATURAL HISTORY in English

— natural historian .

1. the sciences, as botany, mineralogy, or zoology, dealing with the study of all objects in nature: used esp. in reference to the beginnings of these sciences in former times.

2. the study of these sciences.

[ 1560-70 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .