nitrobacterium

Noun nitrobacterium has 1 sense

• nitrobacterium(n = noun.animal) Array - 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; Array
is a kind of bacteria, bacterium
has particulars: nitrate bacterium, nitric bacterium, nitrite bacterium, nitrous bacterium