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pensile

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pen⋅sile

  [pen-sahyl, -sil]
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–adjective
1. hanging, as the nests of certain birds.
2. building a hanging nest.
Origin:
1595–1605; < L pēnsilis hanging down, equiv. to pēns(us) ptp. of pendēre to hang (equiv. to pend- v. s. + -tus ptp. suffix, with dt > s) + -ilis -ile
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pen·sile   (pěn'sīl')   
adj.  

  1. Hanging loosely; suspended: the pensile nest of the Baltimore oriole.

  2. Having or building a hanging nest. Used of birds.


[Latin pēnsilis, from pēnsus, past participle of pendēre, to hang; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots.]
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