pensile

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Tickell describes the nest as pensile but quite open, being a hemisphere with one side prolonged, by which it is suspended from a twig.

From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian

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)

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

The crested waters sleep; White stars their emerald twilight keep Above the tryst of pensile glories That kiss to purple-and-gold the deep.

From Song-waves by Rand, Theodore H. (Theodore Harding)

The books are ranged all round the room on open shelves, with a communication to those of the upper row by a pensile gallery that surrounds the whole periphery.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various