Word.ws English Dictionary

nitrosome

nitrosome noun: a vesicle found in some eukaryotic cells which contains endosymbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

Noun

nitrosome (plural nitrosomes)

  1. A vesicle found in some eukaryotic cells which contains endosymbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

Forms of nitrosome

pluralnitrosomes

Origin of nitrosome

From nitro- + -some.

Questions about nitrosome

What does nitrosome mean?
Nitrosome means a vesicle found in some eukaryotic cells which contains endosymbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
What part of speech is nitrosome?
Nitrosome is a noun.
What is the plural of nitrosome?
The plural of nitrosome is nitrosomes.

Words near nitrosome in the dictionary

  1. nitrosoglutathione
  2. nitrosoguanidine
  3. nitrosoindazole
  4. nitrosolic acid
  5. nitrosolic acids
  6. nitrosome
  7. nitrosomes
  8. nitrosomonad
  9. nitrosomonads
  10. nitrosomyoglobin
  11. nitrosonaphthol

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nitrosome (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “nitrosome.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nitrosome. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.