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Pensile

[PEN-səl]

Part of speech: adjective

Origin: Latin, early 17th century

1.

Hanging down; pendulous.

Examples of Pensile in a sentence

"The peaches were ripe and pensile."

"The heavy snow on the branches made them pensile."

illustration Pensile

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