pendent
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The species of this genus have male inflorescences, clusters of flowers on branches, that are pendent and nectarless, which has made scientists assume they are pollinated by wind.
From Science Daily
To complete the ensemble, Spears wore a beaded necklace with an arrowhead-shaped pendent.
From Fox News
From a single, pendent stalk, pollinated female flowers are forming the familiar bunches of bananas, but they’re small and green.
From Washington Post
Her power tool buzzed as she shaped the pendent for a new line coming from Rebel Nell, a company that employs disadvantaged women in Detroit to craft jewelry out of fallen graffiti.
From Washington Times
“The more zealous among the officers … were continually crying out that ‘atonements’ must be made, insurgents must be seized, examples must be exhibited pendent from the limbs of trees,” he wrote.
From Washington Times
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