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What does pendulous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pendulous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. hanging as if from a support
  2. indecisive or hesitant
  3. (biology) having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping
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The compass is mounted in a pendulous gimbal such that when subjected to high angular rates, the compass swings in its mount.
Seventy or eighty of them form enormous pendulous bunches, of which each tree annually ripens three.
The varieties with pendulous growth are suitable for hanging baskets and window boxes.
Sourwood decks itself with pendulous seedpods, and hazelnut displays dangling catkins in early spring.
The large pendulous flower clusters of the wisteria vine are quite appealing to butterflies in late spring.
A lone tree stands in a nursery in Portland with pendulous white bells ringing from its arms.

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