pendulous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   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.

2. 2
   adj

   having branches or flower heads that bend downward

3. 3
   adj

   Indecisive or hesitant

4. 4
   adj

   Having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping

Etymology

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