| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| pensile |
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| SYLLABICATION: | pen·sile |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p n s l |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Hanging loosely; suspended: the pensile nest of the Baltimore oriole. 2. Having or building a hanging nest. Used of birds. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin p nsilis, from pnsus, past participle of pendre, to hang. See (s)pen- in Appendix I.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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