subvariant
nounEtymology From sub- + variant.
1
A subsidiary variant; a subtype of something.
- DreamHack began in 1994, in the basement of a nearby elementary school, as a small, local subvariant of what was then called a ‘‘copyparty’’ — pre-broadband occasions to share software or demonstrate flashy off-label uses of early home computers.2015 July 16, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Photographs By Franck Bohbot, “Power in Numbers”, in The New York Times:
- As with the previous Omicron subvariants, it seems likely that the US will follow those regions once again, with or without the new souped-up vaccines.2022 July 20, “Opinion: Covid-19 continues to surprise us”, in CNN: