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The planet's green operating system, quietly turning sunlight into everything that breathes.
means All the plant life of an area considered collectively — from moss to mighty oaks.
from From Latin vegetare, to enliven or animate — the same root that gave us vegetable and, oddly, vigor and vegan.
Same rootShares ancestry with vigor, meaning to enliven.
Oxygen factoryLand plants make roughly half of Earth's oxygen.
HeavyweightsPlants outweigh all animals by about a thousandfold.