an actual or potential form of wealth supplied by nature, as coal, oil, water power, timber, arable land, etc.
natural resource
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natural resource
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A material source of wealth, such as timber, fresh water, or a mineral deposit, that occurs in a natural state and has economic value.
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Something, such as a forest, a mineral deposit, or fresh water, that is found in nature and is necessary or useful to humans.
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