pensile
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My plumy pairs, in gay embroidery dressed, Form with ingenious skill the pensile nest; To Love's sweet notes attune the listening dell, And Echo sounds her soft symphonious shell.
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Sue Petigru Bowen
The large red monkey of Demerara is not a baboon, though it goes by that name, having a long pensile tail.
From Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton
One day I was taken by a native to the centre of a brush, where a gigantic cotton-tree standing alone was hung with about fifty of the large pensile nests of this species.
Adj. pendent, pendulous; pensile; hanging &c. v.; beetling, jutting over, overhanging, projecting; dependent; suspended &c. v.; loose, flowing. having a peduncle &c. n.; pedunculate†, tailed, caudate.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
The spines of the Pinus Maritima are longer than those of the Pinus Lariccio, and the branches more pensile.
From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester