Definition of "pensile" [pen•sile]

• Hanging loosely; suspended: the pensile nest of the Baltimore oriole. (adjective)
• Having or building a hanging nest. Used of birds. (adjective)

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• "They are compact and rather deep, half pensile, that is to say, partly slung between the branches of the fork to which they are attached by bands of vegetable fibres."
• "Now in this palace he erected very high walks, supported by stone pillars, and by planting what was called a pensile paradise, and replenishing it with all sorts of trees, he rendered the prospect an exact resemblance of a mountainous country."
• "He also erected what was called a pensile paradise, because his wife was desirous to have things like her own country, she having been bred up in the palaces of Media. ""