pensile
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The moon shone down, but the shadows deep Of the pensile flowers, were hushed in sleep.
From Poems by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
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 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
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 Allan Octavian Hume
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
