pensile

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Adj. pendent, pendulous; pensile; hanging &c. v.; beetling, jutting over, overhanging, projecting; dependent; suspended &c. v.; loose, flowing. having a peduncle &c. n.; pedunculate†, tailed, caudate.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

I have sometimes compared him to the silver and graceful ash, with its pensile branches, and leaves of gentle green, reflecting gleams of happy sunshine.

From The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Bonar, Andrew A.

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

Be careful to distinguish between pencil, an instrument for writing, and pensile, meaning hanging down.

From Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected by Anonymous

Every year of his life has he seen the beautiful Hang-Bird weave his pensile habitation upon the long and flexible branches of the Elm, secure from the reach of every living creature.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 by Various