NATURAL RESOURCES
Dictionary entry overview: What does natural resources mean? • NATURAL RESOURCES (noun)
The noun NATURAL RESOURCES has 1 sense:
1. resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature
Familiarity information: NATURAL RESOURCES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NATURAL RESOURCES (noun)
Meaning:
Resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
natural resource; natural resources
Hypernyms ("natural resources" 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 resources"):
land resources (natural resources in the form or 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)
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