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pensile
adjective as in hanging
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Their nests, which are semi-pensile, are often placed in giant yucca trees, or in vines that are suspended from cacti.
Their nests are semi-pensile and usually placed in mesquite trees not more than ten or fifteen feet from the ground.
That long black wasp, commonly called a Jack Spaniard, builds pensile paper nests under every roof and shed.
The Philippine and Pensile Grosbeak make also very curious nests.
Four or five weeping-willows, their stems leaning towards the grave, hang their pensile branches over it.
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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pensile, such as: beetling, dangly, drooping, fastened to, jutting, and overhanging.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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