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pendulous

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pen·du·lous  (pnj-ls, pndy-, -d-)
adj.
1. Hanging loosely; suspended so as to swing or sway.
2. Wavering; undecided.
[From Latin pendulus, from pendre, to hang; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.]
pendu·lous·ly adv.
pendu·lous·ness n.
pendulous
Adjective
Literary hanging downwards and swinging freely [Latin pendere to hang down]
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Adj.1.pendulous - having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers"
cernuous, nodding, weeping, drooping
biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms
unerect - not upright in position or posture
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So blend the turrets and shadows there That all seem pendulous in air, While from a proud tower in the town Death looks gigantically down.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
Almost in the same instant, with a thunder-boom, the enormous mass dropped into the sea, like Niagara's Table-Rock into the whirlpool; the suddenly relieved hull rolled away from it, to far down her glittering copper; and all caught their breath, as half swinging --now over the sailors' heads, and now over the water --Daggoo, through a thick mist of spray, was dimly beheld clinging to the pendulous tackles, while poor, buried-alive Tashtego was sinking utterly down to the bottom of the sea
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
That each seemed pendulous in air -- so mirror-like was the glassy water, that it was scarcely possible to say at what point upon the slope of the emerald turf its crystal dominion began.
The Island of The Fay by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
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