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pendulous

UK/ˈpɛndjʊləs/US/ˈpɛndʒələs/
adjectiveC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,514 of 15,258leans written

Pendulous means hanging down loosely. Pendulous branches, a pendulous lip, pendulous blossoms.

It suits willows, catkins and heavy blossom, and applied to a person's body it reads as unkind. The Latin pendere, to hang, is behind pendant, pendulum and suspend as well.

Definitions of pendulous

  1. 1adjectivependulousHanging down loosely.C1

    “The bush was covered in pendulous pink flowers that hung like little bells.”

pendulous is a quality of hanging.

Where it comes from

Latin pendulus comes from pendere, to hang. Pendulum and pendant are relatives.

  1. Latin

    pendulus — pendant

  2. English, today

    pendulous

Built from

  • pendeō · Latin — to hang

Borrowed from Latin pendulus (“pendant”), from pendeō (“to hang”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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pendulous in the wild

  • At the bottom is a stream with poorly drained woodland dominated by alder and a ground layer with plants such as marsh marigold and pendulous sedge.

    Colyers Hanger

  • Carex pendula (pendulous sedge, also known as hanging, drooping or weeping sedge) is a large sedge of the genus Carex.

    Carex pendula

  • Scirpus pendulus is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family known by the common names pendulous bulrush, rufous bulrush, and nodding bulrush.

    Scirpus pendulus

  • There are also ponds and wetland areas, with plants such as pendulous sedge and water plantain.

    Litten Nature Reserve

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the pendulus family

pendulum

pendulous — used about once every 54,060 pages · #14,514 · point at the bar for the others