Mother-hive

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  1. 1
    the principal or source hive of a colony of bees

    "A mother-hive of bees is 24 pence in value."

  2. 2
    a location similarly serving as the source of a group of people idiomatic

    "[John Whitman] came over in the True Love in 1640 to America and lived in Weymouth, Mass., which place became the mother-hive of the New Englanders of the name."

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