nitrate bacterium

1. 1.

   any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize nitrites into nitrates

   Synonymsnitric bacterium

   Broadernitrobacterium

Questions about nitrate bacterium

What does nitrate bacterium mean?

nitrate bacterium means "any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize nitrites into nitrates".

What is another word for nitrate bacterium?

Close synonyms include nitric bacterium. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nitrate bacterium a common word?

nitrate bacterium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.