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English
Verb
nested
- simple past and past participle of nest
Adjective
nested (not comparable)
- Embedded.
- Successively fitted one inside another.
- (lexicography) (Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword.
2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 297:The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive of variants.
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successively fitted one inside another
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