Wiktionary
photosynthesizer
n. Any organism that uses photosynthesis to generate carbohydrates
Usage examples of "photosynthesizer".
Flowering plants are late products of the evolution of multicelled photosynthesizers.
For them the emergence of cyanobacteria—the first photosynthesizers, which used sunlight to turn carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and oxygen—was a disaster, for reactive oxygen was a lethal poison.
This planet never did have enough sulfur springs or useful species of purple anaerobic photosynthesizers for their tastes.