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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

Dictionary Results for pendulous:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

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" [syn: cernuous, drooping, nodding,
           pendulous, weeping]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
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   2. Wavering; unstable; doubtful. [R.] "A pendulous state of
      mind." --Atterbury.
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   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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