noun
- Soil bacteria that convert nitrites to nitrates.
- synonyms: nitric bacteria
- 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.
- synonyms: nitrobacterium
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