natural object | an object occurring naturally, not made by man |
natural family planning | any of several methods of family planning that do not involve sterilization or contraceptive devices or drugs, coitus is avoided during the fertile time of a woman's menstrual cycle |
natural | (craps) a first roll of or that immediately wins the stake |
silk gland serictery sericterium | silk-producing gland of insects (especially of a silkworm) or spiders |
dress hat high hat opera hat silk hat stovepipe top hat topper beaver | a man's hat with a tall crown, usually covered with silk or with beaver fur |
moire watered-silk | silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern |
nylons nylon stocking rayons rayon stocking silk stocking | women's stockings made from a sheer material (nylon or rayon or silk) |
silk | a fabric made from the fine threads produced by certain insect larvae |
silkscreen silk screen print serigraph | a print made using a stencil process in which an image or design is superimposed on a very fine mesh screen and printing ink is squeegeed onto the printing surface through the area of the screen that is not covered by the stencil |
natural virtue | (scholasticism) one of the four virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) derived from nature |
natural ability | ability that is inherited |
endowment gift talent natural endowment | natural abilities or qualities |
natural history | the scientific study of plants or animals (more observational than experimental) usually published in popular magazines rather than in academic journals |
law natural law | a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society |
natural science | the sciences involved in the study of the physical world and its phenomena |
physics natural philosophy r | the science of matter and energy and their interactions, his favorite subject was physics |
natural language processing NLP human language technology | the branch of information science that deals with natural language information |
natural theology | a theology that holds that knowledge of God can be acquired by human reason without the aid of divine revelation |
natural language processor natural language processing application | an application program that deals with natural language text |
natural logarithm Napierian logarithm | a logarithm to the base e |
natural cancel | a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat |
natural language tongue | a human written or spoken language used by a community, opposed to e.g. a computer language |
happening occurrence occurrent natural event | an event that happens |
Royal Society Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge | an honorary English society (formalized inand given a royal charter by Charles II in ) through which the British government has supported science |
Silk Road | an ancient trade route between China and the Mediterranean (, miles), followed by Marco Polo in the th century to reach Cathay |
covering natural covering cover | a natural object that covers or envelops, under a covering of dust, the fox was flushed from its cover |
enclosure natural enclosure | a naturally enclosed space |
natural depression depression | a sunken or depressed geological formation |
natural elevation elevation | a raised or elevated geological formation |
natural order | the physical universe considered as an orderly system subject to natural (not human or supernatural) laws |
spring fountain outflow outpouring natural spring | a natural flow of ground water |
natural | someone regarded as certain to succeed, he's a natural for the job |
naturalist natural scientist | a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology) |
natural phenomenon | all phenomena that are not artificial |
silk tree Albizia julibrissin Albizzia julibrissin | attractive domed or flat-topped Asiatic tree having bipinnate leaves and flowers with long silky stamens |
mountain rice silkgrass silk grass Indian millet Oryzopsis hymenoides | valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico |
cornsilk corn silk | each of the long filamentous styles that grow as a silky tuft at the tip of an ear of Indian corn |
Jamaican cherry calabur tree calabura silk wood silkwood Muntingia calabura | a fast-growing tropical American evergreen having white flowers and white fleshy edible fruit, bark yields a silky fiber used in cordage and wood is valuable for staves |
silk oak | any of several Australian timber trees having usually fernlike foliage and mottled wood used in cabinetry and veneering |
ramie ramee Chinese silk plant China grass Boehmeria nivea | tall perennial herb of tropical Asia with dark green leaves, cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax |
silk vine Periploca graeca | deciduous climber for arches and fences having ill-scented but interesting flowers and poisonous yellow fruits, cultivated for its dark shining foliage, southeastern Europe to Asia Minor |
natural resource natural resources | resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature |
natural childbirth | labor and childbirth without medical intervention, no drugs are given to relieve pain or aid the birth process, natural childbirth is considered the safest for the baby |
natural process natural action action activity | a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings), the action of natural forces, volcanic activity |
survival survival of the fittest natural selection selection | a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment |
natural number | the number and any other number obtained by adding to it repeatedly |
natural shape | a shape created by natural forces, not man-made |
wild natural state state of nature | a wild primitive state untouched by civilization, he lived in the wild, they collected mushrooms in the wild |
natural immunity innate immunity | immunity to disease that occurs as part of an individual's natural biologic makeup |
natural glass | magma of any composition that cooled very rapidly |