PENDULOUS • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Pendulous

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/pˈɛndʒələs/ Listen

adjective

Pendulous adj.

Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging. "The pendulous round earth."

Wavering; unstable; doubtful. (R.) "A pendulous state of mind."

(Bot.) Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper part of the ovary.

See images of 'Pendulous'

Etymology of 'Pendulous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Pendulous" Quotes from Famous Books

... trepidation still grasping the carcass of what had been a black Orpington, there emerged from the cottage a filthy and evil-smelling tramp. A week's sandy stubble bristled upon his chin, the pendulous lips were twitching, the crafty eyes shifted uneasily from side ...

— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates

... felt my cheeks burn, while my heart beat an excited tattoo against my ribs. The house I knew by sight, a grave, low-browed mansion, with a fringe of purple wistaria draping the long porch; and it was under a pendulous shower of blossoms that we found the General seated with the evening newspaper in his hand and his bandaged foot on a wicker stool. As we entered the gate he was making a face over a glass of water, while he complained fretfully ...

— The Romance of a Plain Man • Ellen Glasgow

... his money?" asked a red-faced gentleman with a pendulous excrescence on the end of his nose, that shook like the gills of ...

— A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others • Various

... towards the hole she took in every detail of this man who was predestined to be her enemy. He was big and fat, with a high George the Third nose and the florid smugness of a country squire, and as he returned Wunpost's greeting his pendulous lower lip was thrust up in arrogant scorn. He came on confidently, and behind him like a shadow there followed a mysterious second person. His nose was high and thin, his cheeks gaunt and furrowed, ...

— Wunpost • Dane Coolidge

... vapor had developed itself far and wide into the appearance of huge aerial draperies, hanging in mighty volumes from the sky to the earth; and at particular points, where the eddies of the breeze acted upon the pendulous skirts of these aerial curtains rents were perceived, sometimes taking the form of regular arches, portals, and windows, through which began dimly to gleam the heads of camels 'indorsed' [Footnote: Camels 'indorsed;'—'And elephants indorsed with towers.' ...

— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey

More quotes...