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photosynthesis

Noun B1 – Intermediate

The process by which green plants use sunlight to turn water and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen.

"Photosynthesis happens mainly in the leaves, where chlorophyll captures sunlight."

Respiration is sometimes treated as photosynthesis's opposite process, since it releases energy from food rather than storing it.