natural environment
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnaturalandenvironment
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natural
adjective
uk/ˈnætʃ.ər.əl/us/ˈnætʃ.ɚ.əl/
as found in nature and not involving anything made or done ...
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environment
noun
uk/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/us/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/
the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and ...
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(Definition ofnaturalandenvironmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The situations in which these anomalies are seen are very unlike anything that happens in an animal'snaturalenvironment.
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Itsnaturalenvironmentis the soil where this organism feeds mainly on bacteria.
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First, we have to point to changes in thenaturalenvironment.
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As evident below, sealworm growth rates are considerably slower at temperatures favoured by fish hosts in theirnaturalenvironment.
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Just as earthquakes and -oods erupt under pressure, causing abrupt mutations of thenaturalenvironment, men and women experienced psychological changes affecting their collective consciousness.
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If we are going to leave anything for future generations, we need to attend to thenaturalenvironment.
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The harps became integrated with thenaturalenvironment.
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Similarly, the field biologist will find useful the results of cell biology as providing insights into how fertilisation can occur in the challengingnaturalenvironment.
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In thenaturalenvironmentaluminum is a highly reactive metal that develops an inert oxide film (alumina) uniformly covering all the surface of the metal.
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It is not, as its title might suggest, a substantive inquiry into the relationships between human well-being and the state of thenaturalenvironment.
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Externally the units were meant to be covered with plantings, increasing their integration into thenaturalenvironment.
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The intervention is provided in a toddler'snaturalenvironment, typically the home, within the context of family and therapist-child interactions.
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Of course, reliance on thenaturalenvironmentis not itself the problem.
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Commercialisation was clearly not the only determining factor for these phenomena, but neither was thenaturalenvironment.
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Yet, even in anaturalenvironment, significant objects may be only intermittently visible - as when they are behind wind-blown foliage, for example.
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