nested

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of nest

adj

1. (not-comparable)Embedded.
2. (not-comparable)Successively fitted one inside another.
3. (not-comparable)(Of a lexical item) 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.”