Meanings
adjectivenitrogen-fixing (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyOf a plant, microbe, etc., able to convert inorganic nitrogen into a form usable in the biosphere.
From these results it is concluded that hydrogenase is closely related to the nitrogen-fixing system in Azotobacter.
1943, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (contributor), The Journal of Biological Chemistry, volumes 151-152, page 384
Translations
Danish nitrogenfikserende, kvælstoffikserende
- nitrogenfikserendeable to convert inorganic nitrogen
- kvælstoffikserendeable to convert inorganic nitrogen
Italian azotofissatore
- azotofissatoreable to convert inorganic nitrogen
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