nitrogenous
nahy tro juh nuhs
- a of or relating to or containing nitrogen
- Plantation rubber gets its smell from the sulphur or nitrogenous accelerators required to cure the rubber for commercial use.
- The production of penicillin, which is typical of most fermentation processes, starts from a small culture of the mold growing on a mixture of water, sugar and some nitrogenous food.
- If, as the Indians hope, all this comes to pass, Indian nitrogenous-fertilizer production will rise from 243,884 tons in 1965 to 2,500,000 tons in five years.