pensile
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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 Charles Waterton
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 Chester A. (Chester Albert) Reed
There was also a weeping willow close by, whose pensile tresses of new verdure touched the half-broken walls of earth underneath.
From Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan by Epiphanius Wilson
The dainty pensile nests which become visible when the leaves fall in the autumn are swung by four species of vireos, the white-eyed, red-eyed, warbling, and yellow-throated.
From The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year by William Beebe
Four or five weeping-willows, their stems leaning towards the grave, hang their pensile branches over it.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 551, June 9, 1832 by Various
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