pensile
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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 Burroughs, John
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
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)
