pensile

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The large red monkey of Demerara is not a baboon, though it goes by that name, having a long pensile tail.

From Wanderings in South America by Waterton, Charles

The nest was pensile, like that of the Baltimore Oriole.

From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 2 February, 1897 by Various

Its natural position is exclusively pensile; it moves laterally from branch to branch with great ease, by using each foot alternately, and climbs, when necessary, by means of its claws.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

Adj. pendent, pendulous; pensile; hanging &c. v.; beetling, jutting over, overhanging, projecting; dependent; suspended &c. v.; loose, flowing. having a peduncle &c. n.; pedunculate†, tailed, caudate.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Who, o'er her palaces and buried towers, Shall bid the owl hoot, and the bittern scream; And on her pensile groves and pleasant shades 80 Pour the deep waters of forgetfulness.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George