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Tekoälykääntäjä

Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot

Ääntäminen

  • ÄäntäminenUS
  • ÄäntäminenAU
KieliKäännökset
suomiemosuoni

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

  1. (geology) A large or rich vein of gold or of another precious mineral from which other branches extend.
  2. (idiomatic, by extension) Any source of valuable or useful material.

Esimerkit

  • Undeterred, reasoning from the coarseness of the gold that it had not traveled far, they had set out in search of the mother lode.
  • It is also letting them probe the genomes of other organisms for DNA that could turn out to be a mother lode for medicine.

Taivutusmuodot

Monikkomother lodes

Luokat


(geology) A large or rich vein of gold or of another precious mineral from which other branches extend.

(Left) Two water-worn gold nuggets from Tuolumne County. They are typical of larger nuggets found by the early California gold rush placer miners (each ~1.6 x 1.1 x 0.3 cm). (Right) Crystalline gold specimen from the California Mother Lode, probably from Tuolumne County (5.3 x 2.7 x 2.4 cm).