pendulous
adjUK /ˈpɛndjʊləs/ · US /ˈpɛndʒələs/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin pendulus (“pendant”), from pendeō (“to hang”).
1
Hanging from, or as if from, a support.
- 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.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 103:
2
Indecisive or hesitant
3
Biology, Natural sciences Having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping
- Derived terms
- pendulous abdomen, pendulously, pendulousness