mother-hive

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. the principal or source hive of a colony of bees
    — A mother-hive of bees is 24 pence in value.
  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.

词形变化

mother-hives plural mother hive alternative
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