Usually means: Converting ammonia to nitrate biologically.
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  1. nitrifying: Merriam-Webster
  2. nitrifying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nitrifying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. nitrifying: Vocabulary.com
  5. nitrifying: Wordnik
  6. nitrifying: Dictionary.com
  7. Nitrifying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Nitrifying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. nitrifying: FreeDictionary.org
  10. nitrifying: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. nitrifying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  12. nitrifying: Wiktionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. nitrifying: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. nitrifying: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Describing certain bacteria that oxidize ammonia to nitrite and nitrate in the soil

Similar:
nitrophilic, nitrophilous, acidotrophic, methaniferous, actinorhizal, microaerophilic, nodulating, aciduric, sulfophilic, acidophilous, more...

Opposite:
denitrifying, deammonification, anammox

Phrases:
Nitrifying bacteria, nitrifying bacterium, more...

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Similar:
nitrophilic, nitrophilous, acidotrophic, methaniferous, actinorhizal, microaerophilic, nodulating, aciduric, sulfophilic, acidophilous, more...

Opposite:
denitrifying, deammonification, anammox

Phrases:
Nitrifying bacteria, nitrifying bacterium, more...



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