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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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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