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Topic: CHEMISTRY

photosynthesis

 noun
     
pho‧to‧syn‧the‧sis [uncountable] technical
HB the production by a green plant of special substances like sugar that it uses as food, caused by the action of sunlight on chlorophyll (=the green substance in leaves)
—photosynthesize verb [intransitive and transitive]
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