NATURAL OBJECT

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does natural object mean? 

• NATURAL OBJECT (noun)
  The noun NATURAL OBJECT has 1 sense:

1. an object occurring naturally; not made by man

  Familiarity information: NATURAL OBJECT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATURAL OBJECT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An object occurring naturally; not made by man

Classified under:

Nouns with no superordinates

Hypernyms ("natural object" is a kind of...):

unit; whole (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "natural object"):

cover; covering; natural covering (a natural object that covers or envelops)

plant part; plant structure (any part of a plant or fungus)

cosmos; creation; existence; macrocosm; universe; world (everything that exists anywhere)

tangle (a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven)

sample (all or part of a natural object that is collected and preserved as an example of its class)

rock; stone (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter)

radiator (any object that radiates energy)

nest (a structure in which animals lay eggs or give birth to their young)

mechanism (a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function)

estraterrestrial body; extraterrestrial object (a natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere)

cocoon (silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs)

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

consolidation (something that has consolidated into a compact mass)

celestial body; heavenly body (natural objects visible in the sky)

carpet (a natural object that resembles or suggests a carpet)

body (an individual 3-dimensional object that has mass and that is distinguishable from other objects)

black body; blackbody; full radiator (a hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it)

asterism ((astronomy) a cluster of stars (or a small constellation))

body; dead body (a natural object consisting of a dead animal or person)

body; organic structure (the entire physical structure of an organism (an animal, plant, or human being))

Antonym:

artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole)