nitrous bacterium

Questions about nitrous bacterium

What is another word for nitrous bacterium?

It depends which nitrous bacterium you mean. In the sense “any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize ammonia into nitrites”, the synonyms are nitrite bacterium. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of nitrous bacterium?

WordNet records no antonym for nitrous bacterium. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for nitrous bacterium come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for nitrous bacteriumAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for nitrous bacteriumWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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