nitrosobacteria

Questions about nitrosobacteria

What does nitrosobacteria mean?

nitrosobacteria means "soil bacteria that oxidize ammonia to nitrites".

How many syllables are in nitrosobacteria?

nitrosobacteria has 7 syllables and divides as ni-tro-so-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 nitrosobacteria?

Close synonyms include nitrous 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 nitrosobacteria a common word?

nitrosobacteria 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.