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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Embed \Em*bed"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embedded}; p. pr & vb n.
{Embedding}.] [Pref. em- + bed. Cf {Imbed}.]
To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as
to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
embedded
adj 1: enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass; "found pebbles
embedded in the silt"; "stone containing many embedded
fossils"; "peach and plum seeds embedded in a sweet
edible pulp"
2: inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole;
"confused by the embedded Latin quotations"; "an embedded
subordinate clause"
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