Definition of Natural shape

1. Noun. A shape created by natural forces; not man-made.

Generic synonyms: Form, Shape
Specialized synonyms: Leaf Form, Leaf Shape

Lexicographical Neighbors of Natural Shape

natural price
natural prices
natural process
natural processes
natural product
natural products
natural reserve
natural resin
natural resource
natural resources
natural science
natural sciences
natural scientist
natural scientists
natural selection
natural shape (current term)
natural son
natural sons
natural spring
natural state
natural theology
natural transformation
natural unit
natural units
natural user interface
natural user interfaces
natural virtue
naturalisation
naturalisations
naturalise

Literary usage of Natural shape

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Missionary Review of the World by James Lutzweiler (1900)
"They had to adopt some Manchu customs, as the permitting the feet of their girls to grow their natural shape. In return they received certain privileges ..."

2. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1860)
"If the tree is to be left to its natural shape, which, in our opinion, is by far the best mode, it will, in tb* apple, pear, cherry, and most other ..."

3. Monachologia, Or, Handbook of the Natural History of Monks: Arranged by Ignaz Born, Count Valerian Krasinski (1852)
"They were expelled from Russia in 1820, and they dare not appear there in their natural shape. When the present work was composed, they did not exist either ..."

4. The Art of Landscape Gardening by Humphry Repton, John Nolen (1907)
"require an artificial terrace on that side; because neither of the dotted lines shewn there would connect with the natural shape; and where the ground ..."

5. Journal of the British Dental Association by British Dental Association (1888)
"Dentists used formerly to make teeth of the natural shape, but that practice was abandoned and the more formal shape adopted for the reasons he specified. ..."

6. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"... as above described, is supposed to have made its appearance, what is plain enough is, that it is not only the natural shape, but the only natural shape. ..."

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