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pendulous 音标拼音: [p'ɛndʒələs] a. 下垂的,摇摆的,摇摆不定的 下垂的,摇摆的,摇摆不定的 pendulous adj 1: having branches or flower heads that bend downward; " nodding daffodils"; " the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; " lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers" [ synonym: { cernuous}, { drooping}, { nodding}, { pendulous}, { weeping}] 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] 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
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