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simple past and past participle of nest examples
not comparable
Embedded. examples
Successively fitted one inside another. examples
(lexicography) (Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword. quotations examples
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