nitrite bacterium

1. 1.

   any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize ammonia into nitrites

   Synonymsnitrous bacterium

   Broadernitrobacterium

Questions about nitrite bacterium

What does nitrite bacterium mean?

nitrite bacterium means "any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize ammonia into nitrites".

What is another word for nitrite bacterium?

Close synonyms include nitrous 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 nitrite bacterium a common word?

nitrite 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.