adj
Meaning 1
Of, relating to, or employing photosynthesis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
photosynthetic
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adjective
Meaning 2
relating to or using or formed by photosynthesis
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: nonphotosynthetic
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bheh2- Proto-Indo-European *bhéh2os Proto-Hellenic *pháwos Ancient Greek φᾰ́ος (phắos) Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs) Ancient Greek φωτο- (phōto-)der. English photo- English synthetic English photosynthetic From photo- + synthetic.
Across languages
Translations
17 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: fotosintéticu — of or relating to photosynthesis
- Belarusian: фотасінтэты́чны (fotasintetýčny) — of or relating to photosynthesis
- Catalan: fotosintètic — of or relating to photosynthesis
- Finnish: fotosynteettinen — of or relating to photosynthesis
- Finnish: yhteytys- — of or relating to photosynthesis
- Finnish: yhteyttävä — of or relating to photosynthesis
- Galician: fotosintético — of or relating to photosynthesis
- German: photosynthetisch — of or relating to photosynthesis
- Hungarian: fotoszintetikus — of or relating to photosynthesis
- Irish: fótaisintéiseach — of or relating to photosynthesis
- Italian: fotosintetico — of or relating to photosynthesis
- Northern Kurdish: ronahîkî çêkirî — of or relating to photosynthesis
- Polish: fotosyntetyczny — of or relating to photosynthesis
- Russian: фотосинтети́ческий (fotosintetíčeskij) — of or relating to photosynthesis
- Spanish: fotosintético — of or relating to photosynthesis
- Turkish: fotosentetik — of or relating to photosynthesis
- Ukrainian: фотосинтети́чний (fotosyntetýčnyj) — of or relating to photosynthesis
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