NATURAL RESOURCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does natural resource mean? 

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

1. resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATURAL RESOURCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

natural resource; natural resources

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

resource (available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed)

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

land resources (natural resources in the form of arable land)

mineral resources (natural resources in the form of minerals)

renewable resource (any natural resource (as wood or solar energy) that can be replenished naturally with the passage of time)