natural resource
a naturally occurring source of wealth, as land or water.
natural resources, the natural wealth of a country, consisting of land, forests, mineral deposits, water, etc.
Origin of natural resource
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How to use natural resource in a sentence
“Israeli men are our biggest natural resource when it comes to gay tourism,” says Rodrigue.
The practice of extracting payments from natural resource companies by threats of disruption and violence will continue.
The Hunger Strike Diet: You Don't Lose Weight AND You Accomplish Your Goal! | David Frum | January 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTo take his hat and go would have been his natural resource, but then he did not wish to be foiled in his object.
Barchester Towers | Anthony TrollopeBut as regards many another natural resource, scientific civilization teaches us how to preserve it through use.
African and European Addresses | Theodore RooseveltFor more than 60 years, the Forest Service has been serving the Nation as a leading natural resource conservation agency.
Ecological Studies of the Timber Wolf in Northeastern Minnesota | L. David Mech
But tears and bewailings were not a natural resource with Polly, whose forte was action.
A Bookful of Girls | Anna FullerSilence was the natural resource, but silence is sometimes more eloquent than speech.
Chronicles of Dustypore | Henry Stewart Cunningham
Scientific definitions for natural resource
Something, such as a forest, a mineral deposit, or fresh water, that is found in nature and is necessary or useful to humans. See more at nonrenewable renewable.
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