Meaning of PENDULOUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'penjulus
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| | Definition: | | [adj] (biology) having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers" |
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| | Synonyms: | | cernuous, drooping, nodding, unerect |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pen"du*lous\, a. [L. pendulus, fr. pendere to hang.
Cf. {Pendant}, and cf. {Pendulum}.]
1. Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging. --Shak.
``The pendulous round earth.'' --Milton.
2. Wavering; unstable; doubtful. [R.] ``A pendulous state of
mind.'' --Atterbury.
3. (Bot.) Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a
recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper
part of the ovary.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Drooping; of ovules, attached at the top of the ovary and hanging downwards from an apical placenta. |
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| | Related Terms: | | cascading, dangling, dependent, depending, drooping, falling, falling loosely, faltering, flowing, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuational, hanging, harmonic, hesitating, hung, libratory, nutational, oscillating, oscillatory, pendent, pending, pendulant, pendular, penduline, pensile, periodic, resonant, sagging, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, suspended, swaying, swinging, tentative, undulating, undulatory, vacillating, vacillatory, vibratile, vibrating, vibratory, wavering, waving, weeping, wobbly |
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