nitric bacterium

1. 1.

   any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize nitrites into nitrates

   Synonymsnitrate bacterium

   Broadernitrobacterium

Questions about nitric bacterium

What does nitric bacterium mean?

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

What is another word for nitric bacterium?

Close synonyms include nitrate 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 nitric bacterium a common word?

nitric 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.