They were of the species known as the “pensile weaver-bird.”
They were of the species known as the “pensile weaver-bird” (Ploceus pensilis).
Be careful to distinguish between pencil, an instrument for writing, and pensile, meaning hanging down.
There it hung, like a hermits beard, from the pensile branch.
These widely-spreading trees are favourites with the black wasps, to which they attach their pensile nests.
Other species of Polybia build nests different in shape and arrangement, though still of the pensile character.
It is the most artistic of all pensile structures, and resembles an old-fashioned silken purse.
pensile in mid-heaven, gazest thou yet with seraphic sorrow on this, the guilty abode of guilty man?
The oriole uses them the most successfully, often attaching her pensile nest to the branch by their aid.
The "pensile Lilac" has been sung by many poets; but the spirit of the flower has been best portrayed in verse by Elizabeth Akers.