mother lode

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A large or rich vein of gold or of another precious mineral from which other branches extend.

   “Undeterred, reasoning from the coarseness of the gold that it had not traveled far, they had set out in search of the mother lode.”

2. isim Any source of valuable or useful material.

   “It is also letting them probe the genomes of other organisms for DNA that could turn out to be a mother lode for medicine.”