subculture in English
- subculture⇄noun 1. a group of people with distinct cultural traits within a culture or society.
Ex. Most of his work has been with ... a youth subculture dominated by gang-joining potentially explosive teenagers (Newsweek).
2. a bacteriological culture - subculture⇄subculture, noun, verb, -tured,-turing.
- subculture⇄v.t. to cultivate (a bacteriological culture) from a previous culture.
Ex. I subculture the water into a nutrient medium as soon as possible--preferably as soon as we bring the specimens out of the cave (New Scientist).