"mother-hive" meaning in English

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          "text": "A mother-hive of bees is 24 pence in value.",
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        "the principal or source hive of a colony of bees"
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          "word": "Leibbiene"
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          "text": "[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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