photosyntheses

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of photosynthesis.
  photosynthesis

  noun

  the complex process by which carbon dioxide, water, and certain inorganic salts are converted into carbohydrates by green plants, algae, and certain bacteria, using energy from the sun and chlorophyll.

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photosyntheses

He suspects that these minerals may have been deposited while the earth's atmosphere was in a transition state, just beginning to accumulate the oxygen that was being released by the photosyntheses of slow-living, primitive plants.

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