Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
- source
- anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
- berm
- a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope
- Cancer
- a small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Leo and Gemini
- Alpha Centauri
- brightest star in Centaurus; second nearest star to the sun
- Sierra Nevada
- a mountain range in southern Spain along the Mediterranean coast to the east of Granada
- Arno River
- a river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea
- slope
- an elevated geological formation
- Mount Adams
- a mountain peak in southwestern Washington in the Cascade Range (12,307 feet high)
- oxbow
- a U-shaped curve in a stream
- planet
- (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction
- sea
- a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
- Coosa River
- river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through eastern Alabama to join the Tallapoosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River
- Pillars of Hercules
- the two promontories at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar; according to legend they were formed by Hercules
- envelope
- a natural covering (as by a fluid)
- East China Sea
- part of the Pacific Ocean near eastern Asia
- cirrus cloud
- a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)
- Microscopium
- a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Sagittarius and Capricornus
- bluff
- a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion)
- salt plain
- a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water
- Columba
- a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Puppis and Caelum
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