nested

Embedded.

Adjective

  1. Embedded.
  2. Successively fitted one inside another.
  3. 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...

Derived

heminested misnested nested class nestedness nonnested seminested unnested

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of nest