pensile
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They build pensile nests of strips of bark and fibres, swung from the forks of branches.
From The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. by Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert)
He analyzes a pensile nest which he found in the woods—doubtless one of the vireo's—and fills ten pages with a minute description of the different materials which it contained.
From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John
The books are ranged all round the room on open shelves, with a communication to those of the upper row by a pensile gallery that surrounds the whole periphery.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
Tickell describes the nest as pensile but quite open, being a hemisphere with one side prolonged, by which it is suspended from a twig.
From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian
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.
