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
The lambkin crops its crimson gem, The wild-bee murmurs on its breast, The blue-fly bends its pensile stem, Light o'er the sky-lark's nest.
From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by David Lester Richardson
The moon shone down, but the shadows deep Of the pensile flowers, were hushed in sleep.
From Poems by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
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
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
