pendulous

Definition

Hanging from, or as if from, a support.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pendulus (“pendant”), from pendeō (“I hang”).

Example Sentences

• "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."

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