Meaning & use
Pensile
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Hanging down or suspended, especially describing something built to hang, such as a nest.
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The weaver bird constructs an elaborate pensile nest that sways from a slender branch.
A pensile bridge stretched across the gorge, swaying gently in the wind.
A note on using this word
"Pensile" comes from Latin pendere, "to hang," the same root that gives us "pendant" and "suspend."
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