pensile

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They are celebrated for their fine purse-shaped pensile nests.

From Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays by Wallace, Alfred Russel

Its natural position is exclusively pensile; it moves laterally from branch to branch with great ease, by using each foot alternately, and climbs, when necessary, by means of its claws.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

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 Forester, Thomas

These are in great part perpendicular, and are overclambered with airy stairways climbing to pensile arbors.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various

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