pensile

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They are celebrated for their fine purse-shaped pensile nests.

From Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays by Wallace, Alfred Russel

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 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 Waterton, Charles

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 Hume, Allan Octavian

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 Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert)