pendulous

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

pendulous
    adj 1: having branches or flower heads that bend downward;
           "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping
           willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant
           flowers" [syn: {cernuous}, {drooping}, {nodding},
           {pendulous}, {weeping}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Pendulous \Pen"du*lous\, a. [L. pendulus, fr. pendere to hang.
   Cf. {Pendant}, and cf. {Pendulum}.]
   1. Depending; pendent loosely; hanging; swinging. --Shak.
      "The pendulous round earth." --Milton.
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   2. Wavering; unstable; doubtful. [R.] "A pendulous state of
      mind." --Atterbury.
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   3. (Bot.) Inclined or hanging downwards, as a flower on a
      recurved stalk, or an ovule which hangs from the upper
      part of the ovary.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

46 Moby Thesaurus words for "pendulous":
      cascading, dangling, dependent, depending, drooping, falling,
      falling loosely, faltering, flowing, fluctuant, fluctuating,
      fluctuational, hanging, harmonic, hesitating, hung, libratory,
      nutational, oscillating, oscillatory, pendent, pending, pendulant,
      pendular, penduline, pensile, periodic, resonant, sagging,
      shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, suspended, swaying, swinging,
      tentative, undulating, undulatory, vacillating, vacillatory,
      vibratile, vibrating, vibratory, wavering, waving, weeping,
      wobbly