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Nested

(of animals) To build or settle into a nest.

📖 Definitions of "Nested"

verb
  1. 1

    (of animals) To build or settle into a nest.

  2. 2

    To settle into a home.

    "We loved the new house and were nesting there in two days!"

  3. 3

    To successively neatly fit inside another.

    "I bought a set of nesting mixing bowls for my mother."

  4. 4

    To place in, or as if in, a nest.

adjective
  1. 1

    Embedded.

  2. 2

    Successively fitted one inside another.

  3. 3

    (Of a lexical item) contained within a dictionary entry as a subordinate term of the main headword.

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