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• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpɛndjʊləs/, /ˈpɛndʒʊləs/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈpɛndʒələs/, /ˈpɛndjələs/
• ハイフネーション: pen‧du‧lous

形容詞

pendulous (comparative more pendulous, superlative most pendulous)

1. Hanging from, or as if from, a support.

   Synonym: suspended

   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 103:

     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. (biology) Having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping

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