pendulous

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɛndjʊləs/|/ˈpɛndʒʊləs/    美 /ˈpɛndʒələs/|/ˈpɛndjələs/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  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.
  2. Indecisive or hesitant
  3. Having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping

词形变化

more pendulous comparative most pendulous superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
pendulous abdomen pendulously pendulousness
相关词
pendant pendulum

词源

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