nitrogen-fixing

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nitrogen-fixing (not comparable)

  1. (biology, botany) Of a plant, microbe, etc., able to convert inorganic nitrogen into a form usable in the biosphere.
    • 1943, American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (contributor), The Journal of Biological Chemistry‎[1], volumes 151-152, page 384:
      From these results it is concluded that hydrogenase is closely related to the nitrogen-fixing system in Azotobacter.

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