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nylon-eating bacterium

nylon-eating bacterium noun: any of the strain Paenarthrobacter ureafaciens KI72 of bacteria that can digest certain by-products of nylon 6 manufacture using the enzyme nylonase.

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.

Forms of nylon-eating bacterium

pluralnylon-eating bacteria

Questions about nylon-eating bacterium

What does nylon-eating bacterium mean?
Nylon-eating bacterium means any of the strain Paenarthrobacter ureafaciens KI72 of bacteria that can digest certain by-products of nylon 6 manufacture using the enzyme nylonase.
What part of speech is nylon-eating bacterium?
Nylon-eating bacterium is a noun.
What is the plural of nylon-eating bacterium?
The plural of nylon-eating bacterium is nylon-eating bacteria.

Words near nylon-eating bacterium in the dictionary

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

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