nitrous bacterium

nitrous bacterium
noun
any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize ammonia into nitrites
Syn: ↑nitrite bacterium
Hypernyms: ↑nitrobacterium

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noun
: a bacterium that oxidizes ammonia to nitrites : one of the nitrosobacteria

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