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Definition of "photosynthetic" [photosynthetic]

  • Of, relating to, or employing photosynthesis (adjective)

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Use "photosynthetic" in a sentence
  • "Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats produces pornography for houseplants, "featuring uncensored acts of explicit pollination, filmed in photosynthetic silhouette for projection onto the exposed foliage of bushes and brambles ...""
  • "The white and green plants, caught in photosynthetic stasis, did not shadow the evolution of grief."
  • "In 1982, Hartmut Michel developed a new isolation procedure that helped him obtain the first crystals of a four-protein complex, called a photosynthetic reaction centre, that is crucial to the process of photosynthesis in the purple bacterium Rhodopseudomonas viridis."