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noun
- 1. waste or debris of any kind: "the streets were foul with detritus"
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DETRITUS definition: 1. waste material or rubbish, especially left after a particular event: 2. a loose mass of…. Learn more.
1. geology : loose material (such as rock fragments or organic particles) that results directly from disintegration. 2. a. : a product of disintegration, destruction, or wearing away : debris. b. : miscellaneous remnants : odds and ends. still picking up detritus from the block party.
DETRITUS meaning: 1. waste material or rubbish, especially left after a particular event: 2. a loose mass of…. Learn more.
Usually, detritus refers to waste or junk of some kind, but it can actually mean any accumulation of material, not only man-made stuff. Loose gravel, silt, and sand can all be called detritus, and so can decomposed organic matter, like piles of dead leaves.
In biology, detritus ( / dɪˈtraɪtəs / or / dɛˈtrɪtəs /) is dead particulate organic material, as distinguished from dissolved organic material. Detritus typically includes the bodies or fragments of bodies of dead organisms, and fecal material.
Detritus definition: rock in small particles or other material worn or broken away from a mass, as by the action of water or glacial ice.. See examples of DETRITUS used in a sentence.
Detritus is the small pieces of rubbish that remain after an event has finished or when something has been used.
n. 1. rock in small particles or other material worn or broken away from a mass, as by the action of water or glacial ice. 2. any disintegrated material; debris. [1785–95; < French détritus < Latin: a rubbing away] de•tri′tal, adj.
Definition of detritus noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
detritus meaning, definition, what is detritus: pieces of waste that remain after someth...: Learn more.
