nested

Etymology

verb

  1. simple past and past participle of nest

adj

  1. Embedded.
  2. Successively fitted one inside another.
  3. (lexicography) (Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword.
    The "Terms" number is the total number of words and lexical phrases, including sub-headwords and other nested lexical items, but exclusive of variants. 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 297

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