nitrous bacterium

1. 1.

   any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize ammonia into nitrites

   Synonymsnitrite bacterium

   Broadernitrobacterium

Questions about nitrous bacterium

What does nitrous bacterium mean?

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

What is another word for nitrous bacterium?

Close synonyms include nitrite 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 nitrous bacterium a common word?

nitrous 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.