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Detritus   /dɪtrˈaɪtəs/  /dˈɛtrətəs/   Listen
Detritus

noun
1.
The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up.  Synonyms: debris, dust, junk, rubble.
2.
Loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks.






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"Detritus" Quotes from Famous Books



... wooded regions of the earth. Deriving sustenance, as they for the most part do, in connection with the decomposition of organic matter, they are usually to be found upon or near decaying logs, sticks, leaves, and other masses of vegetable detritus, wherever the quantity of such material is sufficient to insure continuous moisture. In fruit, however, as will appear hereafter, slime-moulds may occur on objects of any and every sort. Their minuteness retires them from ordinary ken; but ...
— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

... prehistoric miners. He tells us that they sometimes left the flint standing as pillars at pretty short intervals, or they propped up the galleries with even more resistant material, cementing them with clay or with calcareous earth taken from the detritus. In spite of these precautions, landslips frequently occurred, and implements of stag-horn (Fig. 75) have often been flattened by the fall of the roof of the gallery. It is really curious to find implements of an exactly similar kind used for exactly similar ...
— Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples • The Marquis de Nadaillac



Words linked to "Detritus" :   rubbish, scrap, trash, slack, material, stuff



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