naturally occurring
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- adjective
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- The Amazon rainforest is home to many naturally occurring species of plants and animals.
- naturally occurring organisms
- naturally occurring compounds
- naturally occurring substance
Not saying it's great, but bio solids is something that is a naturally occurring nutrient source for plants.
- Not saying it's great, but bio solids is something that is a naturally occurring nutrient source for plants.
- Now, we all have naturally occurring cannabis compounds in our brain and our bodies.
- And probably the best known case of natural occurring testosterone in a woman is Castor Semenya.
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So carnosine is a nutrient that's naturally occurring in our brain, our heart and our muscles.
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Optimally, there would be a match between naturally occurring levels of a construct and data produced by measurement devices.
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I want you to tell your brain that you want to find one naturally occurring heart shape somewhere in the world.
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How does the company expect to avoid environmental exposure to naturally occurring sources of the 'field'?
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So this is an example of a naturally occurring chelated complex.
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The results of this study suggest that some naturally occurring phages may be suitable for such applications.
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All animals have naturally occurring beneficial probiotics in their guts.
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These foods contain polyphenols, which are naturally occurring antioxidant compounds.
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It can be what's called biogenic methane, which is naturally occurring, just due to natural decomposition.
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The tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) is a majestic tree found naturally occurring in the deciduous forests east of the Mississippi.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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Not made or changed by people, coming from nature like sunlight
Antonyms
How Natural
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'existing in nature without human intervention' is directly derivable from combining 'naturally' (in a natural way) with 'occurring' (happening/coming about); the adverb + participle composition transparently signals that something happens in a natural manner. This is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Naturally occurring paints a simple picture: naturally means 'from nature' and occurring means 'happening' or 'being found', like gems forming underground or plants growing wild. So it means 'existing in nature' and not made by people.