NITRATE BACTERIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nitrate bacterium mean? 

• NITRATE BACTERIUM (noun)
  The noun NITRATE BACTERIUM has 1 sense:

1. any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize nitrites into nitrates

  Familiarity information: NITRATE BACTERIUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NITRATE BACTERIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize nitrites into nitrates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

nitrate bacterium; nitric bacterium

Hypernyms ("nitrate bacterium" is a kind of...):

nitrobacterium (any of the bacteria in the soil that take part in the nitrogen cycle; they oxidize ammonium compounds into nitrites or oxidize nitrites into nitrates)