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NITROBACTERIUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("nitrobacterium" is a kind of...):
bacteria; bacterium ((microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nitrobacterium"):
nitrate bacterium; nitric bacterium (any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize nitrites into nitrates)
nitrite bacterium; nitrous bacterium (any of the nitrobacteria that oxidize ammonia into nitrites)
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