"life-source" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "life-sources",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "life-source (plural life-sources)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          "source": "w"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1918, The Twentieth Century - Volume 84, page 923",
          "text": "Every branch vigorously growing on the main stem drawing fecundity from the sap produces leaves, flowers and fruit, but every branch which either from accident, sickness, or refusal to draw from the parent stem. separates itself from the inherited life-source, dooms itself to wither and die.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Dante Alighieri, The Portable Dante",
          "text": "Because I cut the bonds of those so joined, I bear my head cut off from its life-source, which is back there, alas, within its trunk.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Paul Collins, Judgment Day: The Struggle for Life on Earth",
          "text": "In popular belief, the soul has been seen as the life-source that gives shape, individuality and life to each human being;",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Anything that is necessary for or that provides something that is necessary for sustaining life."
      ],
      "id": "en-life-source-en-noun-InurX~kh",
      "links": [
        [
          "necessary",
          "necessary"
        ],
        [
          "provide",
          "provide"
        ],
        [
          "sustain",
          "sustain"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "life-source"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "life-sources",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "life-source (plural life-sources)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1918, The Twentieth Century - Volume 84, page 923",
          "text": "Every branch vigorously growing on the main stem drawing fecundity from the sap produces leaves, flowers and fruit, but every branch which either from accident, sickness, or refusal to draw from the parent stem. separates itself from the inherited life-source, dooms itself to wither and die.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Dante Alighieri, The Portable Dante",
          "text": "Because I cut the bonds of those so joined, I bear my head cut off from its life-source, which is back there, alas, within its trunk.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Paul Collins, Judgment Day: The Struggle for Life on Earth",
          "text": "In popular belief, the soul has been seen as the life-source that gives shape, individuality and life to each human being;",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Anything that is necessary for or that provides something that is necessary for sustaining life."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "necessary",
          "necessary"
        ],
        [
          "provide",
          "provide"
        ],
        [
          "sustain",
          "sustain"
        ],
        [
          "life",
          "life"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "life-source"
}