pensile

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These are in great part perpendicular, and are over clambered with airy stairways climbing to pensile arbors.

From Italian Journeys by Howells, William Dean

Even better known than the birds, are the pensile nests which retain their positions on the swaying drooping branches all through the winter.

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)

The crested waters sleep; White stars their emerald twilight keep Above the tryst of pensile glories That kiss to purple-and-gold the deep.

From Song-waves by Rand, Theodore H. (Theodore Harding)

The spines of the Pinus Maritima are longer than those of the Pinus Lariccio, and the branches more pensile.

From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Forester, Thomas

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