Vocabulary : Natrolite to Naturalistic

Natrolite : A zeolite occuring in groups of glassy acicular crystals, and in masses which often have a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and soda.
Natron : Native sodium carbonate.
Natter : To find fault; to be peevish.
Natterjack : A European toad (Bufo calamita), having a yellow line along its back.
Natty : Neat; tidy; spruce.

Natural : Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color. ;; Conformed to the order, laws, or actual facts, of nature; consonant to the methods of nature; according to the stated course of things, or in accordance with the laws which govern events, feelings, etc.; not exceptional or violent; legitimate; normal; regular; as, the natural consequence of crime; a natural death. ;; Having to do with existing system to things; dealing with, or derived from, the creation, or the world of matter and mind, as known by man; within the scope of human reason or experience; not supernatural; as, a natural law; natural science; history, theology. ;; Conformed to truth or reality ;; Springing from true sentiment; no
Natural steel : Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
Naturalism : A state of nature; conformity to nature. ;; The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will. ;; The theory that art or literature should conform to nature; realism; also, the quality, rendering, or expression of art or literature executed according to this theory. ;; Specif., the principles and characteristics professed or represented by a 19th-century school of realistic writers, notably by Zola and Maupassant, who aimed to give a literal transcription of reality, and laid special stress on the analytic study of character, and on the scientific and experimental nature of their observation of life.
Naturalist : One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. ;; One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion.
Naturalistic : Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism. ;; Closely resembling nature; realistic.

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