nylon-eating bacteria

A form of nylon-eating bacterium — Any of the strain Paenarthrobacter ureafaciens KI72 of bacteria that can digest certain by-products of nylon 6 manufacture using the enzyme nylonase.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of nylon-eating bacterium
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