pensile

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They are compact and rather deep, half pensile, that is to say, partly slung between the branches of the fork to which they are attached by bands of vegetable fibres.

From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian

The "pensile Lilac" has been sung by many poets; but the spirit of the flower has been best portrayed in verse by Elizabeth Akers.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse

The crested waters sleep; White stars their emerald twilight keep Above the tryst of pensile glories That kiss to purple-and-gold the deep.

From Song-waves by Rand, Theodore H. (Theodore Harding)

The dainty pensile nests which become visible when the leaves fall in the autumn are swung by four species of vireos, the white-eyed, red-eyed, warbling, and yellow-throated.

From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by Beebe, William

The moon shone down, but the shadows deep Of the pensile flowers, were hushed in sleep.

From Poems by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)