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Synonyms for pensile
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : pen-sahyl, -sil |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛn saɪl, -sɪl |
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Définition of pensile
- adj hanging
- They were of the species known as the “pensile weaver-bird” (Ploceus pensilis).
- Extract from : « The Bush Boys » by Captain Mayne Reid
- They were of the species known as the “pensile weaver-bird.”
- Extract from : « Popular Adventure Tales » by Mayne Reid
- There it hung, like a hermits beard, from the pensile branch.
- Extract from : « Pictures of Southern Life » by William Howard Russell
- Be careful to distinguish between pencil, an instrument for writing, and pensile, meaning hanging down.
- Extract from : « Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected » by Anonymous
- Other species of Polybia build nests different in shape and arrangement, though still of the pensile character.
- Extract from : « Insect Architecture » by James Rennie
- These widely-spreading trees are favourites with the black wasps, to which they attach their pensile nests.
- Extract from : « In Darkest Africa, Vol. 2; or, The quest, rescue and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria » by Henry Morton Stanley
- Pensile in mid-heaven, gazest thou yet with seraphic sorrow on this, the guilty abode of guilty man?
- Extract from : « A Love Story » by A Bushman
- The oriole uses them the most successfully, often attaching her pensile nest to the branch by their aid.
- Extract from : « Ways of Nature » by John Burroughs
- The "pensile Lilac" has been sung by many poets; but the spirit of the flower has been best portrayed in verse by Elizabeth Akers.
- Extract from : « Old-Time Gardens » by Alice Morse Earle
- In a flowering hawthorn outside our window we watched a loving pair building their pensile nest among the thorns and blossoms.
- Extract from : « Pastoral Days » by William Hamilton Gibson
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