life-source
life-source noun: anything that is necessary for or that provides something that is necessary for sustaining life.
Noun
life-source (plural life-sources)
- Anything that is necessary for or that provides something that is necessary for sustaining life.
- 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.1918, The Twentieth Century - Volume 84, page 923
- 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.2003, Dante Alighieri, The Portable Dante, →ISBN
Forms of life-source
| plural | life-sources |
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Questions about life-source
- What does life-source mean?
- Life-source means anything that is necessary for or that provides something that is necessary for sustaining life.
- What part of speech is life-source?
- Life-source is a noun.
- What is the plural of life-source?
- The plural of life-source is life-sources.
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