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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pendulus (“pendant”), from pendeō (“I hang”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɛndjʊləs/, /ˈpɛndʒʊləs/
Adjective
pendulous (comparative more pendulous, superlative most pendulous)
- Hanging from, or as if from, a support.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 103:The prehistorian Andre Leroi-Gourhan has identified it as "a woman holding a bison horn." With her large pendulous breasts, great stomach, and immense hips, this Paleolithic Madonna is of a type found with countless other figurines in excavations from Spain to the Soviet Union.
- Indecisive or hesitant
- (biology) Having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping
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