NITROUS BACTERIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nitrous bacterium mean? 

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

1. any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize ammonia into nitrites

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NITROUS BACTERIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize ammonia into nitrites

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

nitrite bacterium; nitrous bacterium

Hypernyms ("nitrous 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)