nitrobacteria

Questions about nitrobacteria

What does nitrobacteria mean?

nitrobacteria means "soil bacteria that convert nitrites to nitrates".

How many syllables are in nitrobacteria?

nitrobacteria has 6 syllables and divides as ni-tro-bac-te-ri-a under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for nitrobacteria?

Close synonyms include nitric bacteria. 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 nitrobacteria a common word?

nitrobacteria 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.