pensile
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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
Nest—Very rare, only six known; of hair, feathers, moss, etc., bulky, globular, and partly pensile.
From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897 by Various
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
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 Allan Octavian Hume
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 John Burroughs
