denitrifying bacteria
n pl : various bacteria (as Thiobacillus denitrificans and Paracoccus denitrificans) that bring about denitrification - used esp. of forms that reduce nitrates to nitrites or nitrites to nitrogen gas (as many common putrefactive organisms of manure and soil) .
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