pendent
IPA: pˈɛndʌnt
noun
- Alternative spelling of pendant [(architecture) A supporting post attached to the main rafter.]
adjective
- Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
- Pending (in various senses).
- (architecture, of a structure) Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
- (heraldry) Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.
- (grammar, of a sentence) Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
- (obsolete) Projecting over something; overhanging.
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Examples of "pendent" in Sentences
- The fourth trochantor is pendent.
- It will make an excellent pendent plant.
- The portrait is half of a pair of pendent portraits.
- It has pendent flowers with scarlet red and some green.
- All species remaining are ephiphytic with pendent habit.
- A golden chain with a pendent cross is used to crown them.
- The pendent, tubular flowers are red with pale yellow tips.
- A hanger for hanging fabric in pendent, vertical form is disclosed.
- The inflorescence is interfoliar but will hang pendent nearing antithesis.
- After her death, Lucian took that pendent as a keepsake of his beloved wife.
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