"mother lode" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: en-us-mother lode.ogg [US], En-au-mother lode.ogg [Australia] Forms: mother lodes [plural]
Etymology: Probably a calque of Spanish veta madre (“mother lode”). Etymology templates: {{calque|en|es|veta madre||mother lode|nocap=1}} calque of Spanish veta madre (“mother lode”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} mother lode (plural mother lodes)
  1. (geology) A large or rich vein of gold or of another precious mineral from which other branches extend. Categories (topical): Geology, Gold Translations (large or rich vein of precious mineral): hoofdader [masculine] (Dutch), emosuoni (Finnish), filon principal [masculine] (French), Hauptader [feminine] (German), złoże [neuter] (Polish), kopalnia [feminine] (Polish), żyła [feminine] (Polish), veta madre [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-mother_lode-en-noun-AjHHalMG Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'large or rich vein of precious mineral': 91 9
  2. (idiomatic, by extension) Any source of valuable or useful material. Tags: broadly, idiomatic
    Sense id: en-mother_lode-en-noun-0uUE5hf5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 60 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 37 63 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 34 66
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: mother-lode, motherlode

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