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partially
By that standard pretty much everything is "partially" natural. You're almost always going to have at least one starting material that was derived from a plant or other natural product.
Bring that up with chemistry, it's their term.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semisynthesis
I am an organic chemist working with the synthesis of natural products. I don't think it's common for chemists within this field to refer to chemicals that have undergone several addition steps as "natural", and certainly not when communicating with non-chemists.
Note that the term "natural product" has very precise meaning in chemistry, which is different from what non-chemists would intuit. I would normally not use that term when talking to non-chemists.