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subculturing

subculturing is the present participle and gerund of subculture.

Meaning of subculture

Verb

subculture (third-person singular simple present subcultures, present participle subculturing, simple past and past participle subcultured)

  1. To transfer (microorganisms) to a fresh growth medium in order to start a new culture
    • Cultures were subcultured by 20-fold dilution into fresh MS2D medium approximately every 7 d.1990, Heidi F. Kaeppler et al., “Silicon carbide fiber-mediated DNA delivery into plant cells”, in Plant Cell Reports, volume 9, number 8

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Noun

subculturing (plural subculturings)

  1. The preparation of a subculture

Forms of subculturing

pluralsubculturings

Questions about subculturing

What does subculturing mean?
Subculturing means the preparation of a subculture.
What is subculturing the present participle and gerund of?
Subculturing is the present participle and gerund of subculture.
What part of speech is subculturing?
Subculturing is a noun.
What is the plural of subculturing?
The plural of subculturing is subculturings.

Words near subculturing in the dictionary

  1. subculturalists
  2. subculturally
  3. subculture
  4. subcultured
  5. subcultures
  6. subculturing
  7. subculturings
  8. subculturist
  9. subculturists
  10. subcuneate
  11. subcuneiform

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Adapted from Wiktionary: subculturing (page history and authors); subculture (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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