Definition of "nested" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of nest. (verb)
• Embedded (verb)
• Successively fit inside another. (verb)

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• "ID guy: I said the way the word "nested" is used in cladistics is not the same way as it is used in nested hierarchy."
• "I said the way the word "nested" is used in cladistics is not the same way as it is used in nested hierarchy."
• "The way "nested" is used in cladistics the only nesting is because someone put it there."