about minimal non-nilpotent groups

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Newman and Wiegold have studied the AN-groups i.e. the locally nilpotent groups which are not nilpotent but every proper subgroup is nilpotent. I was asking why the notion locally nilpotent was added to the definition, because if every subgroup is nilpotent then the group will be certainly locally nilpotent. Thank you.