nested
verb
Meaning
- (of animals) To build or settle into a nest.
- To settle into a home.
- To successively neatly fit inside another.
- To place in, or as if in, a nest.
- To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
- To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
- Embedded.
- Successively fitted one inside another.
- (Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword.
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