pensile

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They build pensile nests of strips of bark and fibres, swung from the forks of branches.

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)

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

Nest—Very rare, only six known; of hair, feathers, moss, etc., bulky, globular, and partly pensile.

From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897 by Various

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 Wilson, Epiphanius

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.