mother-hive
Language: en
Meaning: theprincipalorsourcehiveof acolonyofbees1909, Arthur Wade-Evans,Welsh Medieval Law:Amother-hiveof bees is 24pencein value.; (idiomatic)alocationsimilarly serving as thesourceof agroupofpeople1882,Walt Whitman,Specimen Days:[John Whitman] came over in theTrue Lovein 1640 to America and lived in Weymouth, Mass., which place became themother-hiveof the New Englanders of the name.
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