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nylon-eating bacteria

nylon-eating bacteria is the plural of nylon-eating bacterium.

Meaning of nylon-eating bacterium

Noun

nylon-eating bacterium (plural nylon-eating bacteria)

  1. (in plural) Any of the strain Paenarthrobacter ureafaciens KI72 of bacteria that can digest certain by-products of nylon 6 manufacture using the enzyme nylonase.

Questions about nylon-eating bacteria

What is nylon-eating bacteria the plural of?
Nylon-eating bacteria is the plural of nylon-eating bacterium.

Words near nylon-eating bacteria in the dictionary

  1. nylghais
  2. nylghau
  3. nylghaus
  4. nylidrin
  5. nylon
  6. nylon-eating bacteria
  7. nylon-eating bacterium
  8. nylon-string guitar
  9. nylon-string guitars
  10. nylonase
  11. nyloned

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