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from The Century Dictionary.
- Soil bacteria which oxidize nitrous acid to nitric acid. See
nodule- bacteria , with cut.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Soil bacteria that convert nitrites to nitrates.
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- noun Plural form of
nitrobacterium .
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- noun soil bacteria that convert nitrites to nitrates
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