Nitrogen-fixing

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of a plant, microbe, etc., able to convert inorganic nitrogen into a form usable in the biosphere. not-comparable

    "From these results it is concluded that hydrogenase is closely related to the nitrogen-fixing system in Azotobacter."

Adjective
  1. 1
    contributing to the process of nitrogen fixation wordnet

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"From these results it is concluded that hydrogenase is closely related to the nitrogen-fixing system in Azotobacter."

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