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Definition of Pendulous
1. Adjective. Having branches or flower heads that bend downward. "Lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers"
Category relationships: Biological Science, Biology
Similar to: Unerect
Definition of Pendulous
1. a. Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging.
Definition of Pendulous
1. Adjective. hanging as if from a support ¹
2. Adjective. indecisive or hesitant ¹
3. Adjective. (biology) having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pendulous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Pendulous
1. Drooping, of ovules, attached at the top of the ovary and hanging downwards from an apical placenta. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pendulous
Literary usage of Pendulous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"above : flowers rarely bisexual : capsulo pendulous upon n strict pedini, ...
apex : capsule pendulous on a rigid strict pedicel, t. 33. ..."
2. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1803)
"Capsule obovate, pendulous, obtuse. SYN. Bryum nutans. Schreb. Lips. 81. ...
Capsule pendulous, obovate, obtuse, or as ¡t were truncate, of a rusty hue, ..."
3. Flora Cestrica: An Attempt to Enumerate and Describe the Flowering and by William Darlington (1837)
"... at maturity, an ovoid-oblong cone, which is pedunculate and rather pendulous
... pendulous on a slender terete peduncle 3 1л 'i inches lone, ..."
4. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1843)
"The first specimen was a pendulous tumour, the simple sarcoma of Abernethy. ...
In a similar manner are formed pendulous warts on parts subject to much ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"Shrub or small tree: Ifts. 3, oval to oblong, 2-6 in. long; stalk of terminal 1ft.
about 1 in. long: fls. in peduncled, pendulous, raceme-like panicles: fp. ..."
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