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penduline, a. (n.)|ˈpɛndjʊlaɪn|
[a. F. penduline (Buffon) = It. pendolina ‘a kind of birde’ (Florio), mod.L. pendulīn-us, f. pendul-us: see pendulous and -ine1.]
1. Applied to a bird that builds a pendulous nest, esp. the penduline titmouse of Southern and Eastern Europe (ægithalus pendulinus).
1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) II. 196 The Penduline Titmouse. 1843Penny Cycl. XXV. 6/1 Penduline Titmouse and nest. 1868Wood Homes without H. xi. 212.
2. Pendulous, as a bird's nest.
1885Swainson Prov. Names Brit. Birds 31 Long-tailed Titmouse... The penduline form of the nest, and the feathers which compose the lining, have obtained for the bird the names of Jack in a bottle..Bottle tit..Feather poke.
B. n. A titmouse of the genus Pendulinus (a synonym of ægithalus), or allied to this.
1890in Cent. Dict. 1902Speaker 19 Apr. 76/1 The Gold Crest should surely be ranked as a Penduline. |