cernuous

Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping.

Adjective

  1. Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping.
    • cernuous bud/flower/fruit/theca
    • Walking up Redwood Avenue with its tunnel of cernuous willows. - 2005, Zadie Smith, On Beauty, Penguin Books (2006), page 80:

Origin

Latin cernuus (“with the face turned toward the earth”).