Pendulous Sentence Examples

Basset hounds are long and crooked-legged dogs, with pendulous ears.

The flowers are borne in long pendulous racemes, and the two wings of the fruit are ascending.

They are shrubs or low trees with evergreen or nearly evergreen opposite entire leaves, and dense clusters of small, white, tubular four-parted flowers, enclosing two stamens and succeeded by small, globular, usually black berries, each with a single pendulous seed.

Mastiffs are powerful, heavily built dogs, with short muzzles, frequently protruding lower jaws, skulls raised above the eyes, ears erect or pendulous, pendulous upper lips, short coats and thin tails.

The Nepal goat appears to be a variety of the Nubian breed, having the same arched facial line, pendulous ears and long legs.

The mass of styles from the whole spike is pendulous from the summit of the sheaths, as in fig.

They are hypogynous, and have long and very delicate filaments, and large, linear or oblong two-celled anthers, dorsifixed and ultimately very versatile, deeply indented at each end, and commonly exserted and pendulous.

They are from 6 to 20 feet long, becoming pendulous with age.

The pure white fragrant flowers open in June and July on pendulous panicles, 6 to 9 inches long, that hang in a row beneath the branches, one from each joint.

If you have a wide upper torso or large pendulous breasts, this sports bra style may not be right for you.

Lips diverging at obtuse angles with the septum, and slightly pendulous so as to show a square profile.

It has slender branches covered with a light brown bark, and campanulate flowers produced in a pendulous cluster, and of a pale rosy-red color, with three darker lines on each of the five sections of the corolla.

There are several varieties-a drooping kind, which is one of the best of all pendulous trees, and a variegated-leaved kind, which is not satisfactory, as the variegation is seldom good.

There is a purple variety which is an improvement, and a pendulous variety less important.

There is a pendulous form, but any other so-called varieties are better let alone.

Symphyandra - Campanula-like plants of not high rank, S. pendula from the rocky parts of the Caucasus, having branched pendulous stems and large cream-colored bell flowers, almost hidden in the leaves.

For women with very large or pendulous breasts, however, repositioning may require cutting the nerves and ducts that connect to the nipples.

The chief character is the magnificent head, narrow and dome-like between the huge pendulous ears, and with transverse puckers on the forehead and between the eyes.

The colour is generally black-and-tan or brownish, the body is extremely long and cylindrical; the ears are large and pendulous, the legs broad, thick and twisted, with everted paws..

The woods of algarrobo are used for pasture, cattle and horses enjoying the pendulous yellow pods.

The small pendulous bellshaped flowers contain no honey but are visited by bees for the pollen.

The bark is dark bluish-grey, smoother than in the red larch, on the trunk and lower boughs often glossy; the branches are more or less pendulous and very slender.

There are five, or sometimes fewer, carpels, which unite to form an ovary with as many chambers, in each of which are one or two, rarely more, pendulous anatropous ovules, attached to the central column in such a way that the micropyle points outwards and the raphe is turned towards the placenta.

The flowers, which appear in March and April, are borne on pendulous hairy catkins, 2 -3 in.

The wood contains several scarce and locally distributed grasses, sedges and rushes including hairy woodrush, pendulous sedge and wood millet.

The same characters will distinguish grasses from the other glumiferous orders, Restiaceae, and Eriocaulonaceae, which are besides further removed by their capsular fruit and pendulous ovules.

The stout cylindrical male catkins are pendulous, reddish in colour and 2 to 4 in.

Both breeds were large and heavy, with pendulous ears and thick throats with dewlaps.

The flowers, which appear in early summer, are in pendulous, slender yellowish catkins, which bear a number of staminate flowers with a few pistillate flowers at the base.

The calyx, petals and stamens spring from above the ovary (o) in which two chambers are shown each with a pendulous ovule; d, disc between the stamens and stigmas.

In Cycas the altered leaf, upon the margin of which the ovule is produced, and the peltate scales, from which they are pendulous in Zamia, are regarded by all botanists as carpellary leaves.

It may hang from an apicilar placenta at the summit of the ovary, its apex being directed downwards, and is inverted or pendulous, as in Hippuris vulgaris; or from a parietal placenta near the summit, and then is suspended, as in Daphne Mezereum, Polygalaceae and Euphorbiaceae.

A pendulous or weeping habit is assumed by some conifers, e.g.