Pensile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Hanging loosely; suspended: the pensile nest of the Baltimore oriole.
  • adj. Having or building a hanging nest. Used of birds.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Hanging down, suspended.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Hanging; suspended; hanging and swaying; pendulous.
  • Building a hanging nest: as, the pensile warbler.
    • Word Usage
    "They are compact and rather deep, half pensile, that is to say, partly slung between the branches of the fork to which they are attached by bands of vegetable fibres."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hanging    suspended    pendent    pendulous   
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