pendent
pend·ent / ˈpendənt/ • adj. 1. hanging down or overhanging: pendent lichens.2. undecided; pending: the use of jurisdiction to decide pendent claims.3. Gram. (esp. of a sentence) incomplete; not having a finite verb.DERIVATIVES: pen·den·cy n.
pendent
pendent Applied to the attitude of the stipes that hang downwards from the sicula in graptolites (Graptolithina). This is the more primitive condition, from which other graptoloid (Graptoloidea) stocks arose.
pendent
pendent hanging, overhanging XV; (gram.) XIX. ME. penda(u)nt (later latinized) — (O)F. pendant, prp. of pendre :- Gallo-Rom. *pendere, for L. pendēre hang, rel. to pendere weigh, pondus weight; see -ENT.
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