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- mainly geological: pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion
- In biology, detritus is organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
- debris or fragments of disintegrated material
- Many birds use detritus to build their nests.
- flotsam and jetsam
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
De*tri"tus (?), n. [F.
détritus, fr. L. detritus, p. p. of
deterere. See Detriment.] 1.
(Geol.) A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies
by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial
detritus.
&fist; For large portions, the word débris is
used.
2. Hence: Any fragments separated from the
body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration.
The mass of detritus of which modern languages
are composed. Farrar.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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