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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Pendulous \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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Wavering; unstable; doubtful. [R.] ``A pendulous state of
        mind.'' --Atterbury.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Pendulous \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.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  pendulous
       adj : having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding
             daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping
             willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant
             flowers" [syn: cernuous, drooping, nodding]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  pendulous
     Αγγλικά a.
     αιωρούμενος

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  pendulous
     a.
     1 hang from, or as if from, a support.
     2 indecisive or hesitant
     3 (lb en biology) having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping
  or weeping

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  pendulous
     a.
     1 hang from, or as if from, a support.
     2 indecisive or hesitant
     3 (lb en biology) having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping
  or weeping

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  pendulous
     a.
     1 hang from, or as if from, a support.
     2 indecisive or hesitant
     3 (lb en biology) having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping
  or weeping

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  pendulous
     a.
     1 hang from, or as if from, a support.
     2 indecisive or hesitant
     3 (lb en biology) having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping
  or weeping

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Pendulous /pˈɛndjʊləs/
  متدلي

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  pendulous /pˈɛndjʊləs/ 
  висящ, увиснал
  hanging down

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  pendulous /pˈɛndjʊləs/ 
  visící

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  pendulous /pˈɛndjʊləs/ 
  vysící

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]


  pendulous /pˈɛndjʊləs/
  pendelnd
           Note: aufgehängt, frei schwingend 
     Synonym: penduline

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-fin ]


  pendulous /pˈɛndjʊləs/ 
  riippuva, roikkuva
  hanging down

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]


  pendulous /pˈɛndjʊləs/ 
  1. लोल
        "I have a wall clock with a pendulous bell."

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]


  pendulous /pˈɛndjʊləs/
  1. habozó
  2. lengô
  3. lógó
  4. ingadozó
  5. fityegô
  6. függô
  7. ingó
  8. lelógó

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]


  pendulous /pˈɛndjʊləs/
  1. sarkan, asılı, sallanan
  2. muallakta olan.

From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]

/ˈpɛndʒəɫəs/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]


  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "pendulous":
     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

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]


  a. 下垂的,摇摆的,摇摆不定的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]


     a. 下垂的,摇摆的,摇摆不定的

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