Azotobacter

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the genus Azotobacter. countable, uncountable

    "I believe, and this belief is based upon tentative facts, that the azotobacter are at the same time nitrifiers, i. e., that they possess a double function"

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"I believe, and this belief is based upon tentative facts, that the azotobacter are at the same time nitrifiers, i. e., that they possess a double function"

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