pensile
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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
Like the others, it builds a long pensile nest of similar material and suspended from the extremities of limbs near the ground The five to seven eggs are pure white.
From The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. by Chester A. (Chester Albert) Reed
The moon shone down, but the shadows deep Of the pensile flowers, were hushed in sleep.
From Poems by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
It would appear to be over-large for the tiny bird, until we remember that kinglets are wont to have a numerous progeny in their pensile, globular home.
From Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifity Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes by Neltje Blanchan
The nest was pensile, like that of the Baltimore Oriole.
From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 2 February, 1897 by Various
