pensile

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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

Four or five weeping-willows, their stems leaning towards the grave, hang their pensile branches over it.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 by Various

They construct pensile nests composed of interlaced grass and other similar materials.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W by Project Gutenberg

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 Roget, Peter Mark

I saw myself the inheritor of Trewlove's cast-off personality, his inelegancies of movement, his religious opinions, his bagginess at the knees, his mournful, pensile whiskers— This would never do!

From Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir