Plants are multicellular organisms in the kingdom Plantae that use photosynthesis to make their own food. They produce most of the world's oxygen, and are important in the food chain, as many organisms eat plants or eat organisms which eat plants. The study of plants is known as the botany.
a living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.