pensile
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These are in great part perpendicular, and are overclambered with airy stairways climbing to pensile arbors.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various
They are celebrated for their fine purse-shaped pensile nests.
From Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays by Wallace, Alfred Russel
The "pensile Lilac" has been sung by many poets; but the spirit of the flower has been best portrayed in verse by Elizabeth Akers.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse
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
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 Reed, Chester A. (Chester Albert)
