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- noun A
dance in the form of afigure eight performed by thehoney bee in order tocommunicate thedirection anddistance of patches offlowers ,water sources, etc.
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Of honey bees and waggle-dancing
Translated from German schwänzeltanz in 1923.
August 2, 2008