Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
nest . - verb
embedded - verb successively fit inside another.
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Examples
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However in doing so the word "nested" is not the same as the word "nested" in nested hierarchy.
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However in doing so the word "nested" is not the same as the word "nested" in nested hierarchy.
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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.
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I said the way the word "nested" is used in cladistics is not the same way as it is used in nested hierarchy.
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I said the way the word "nested" is used in cladistics is not the same way as it is used in nested hierarchy.
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The way "nested" is used in cladistics the only nesting is because someone put it there.
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I have no doubt that Zachriel and others could identify defining characteristics of organisms within nested hierarchies.
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IOW in nested hierarchies every subset contains the defining characteristics of the set above it - from which it was derived.
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True, but then each organism wouldn't be utterly unique, there would be other organisms it was related to, and one would be able to develop twin nested heirarchies for each set of related organisms.
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When she pushed a box up to the table and sat down upon it, and rested her elbows on the oilcloth and looked straight at him with her chin nested in her two palms, he drew a long breath, hunched his shoulders with some mental surrender, and grinned wryly.
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