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[ UK /dɪtɹˈa‍ɪtəs/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛtɹətəs, dɪˈtɹaɪtəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks
  2. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

How To Use detritus In A Sentence

  • The fact that these rocks were not supplying detritus to the sedimentary basin is consistent with the geological observation that they always appear covered by the younger deposits, with little or no discontinuity until the Devonian.
  • Eluvium is the geological term for detritus from weathering rock (soil, dust and rock particles are broken down and redeposited by the wind).
  • It is thus unlikely that the bulk of the Carboniferous detritus could have been derived by recycling of preexisting Silurian sandstones.
  • It is an image of a sleek chrome bullet-train of genre dragging up dead leaves and detritus from the mainstream tracks as it rockets relentlessly forward. Why Do I Infernokrush?
  • The skimmer removes detritus that would otherwise sink and contribute to algae growth.
  • For these two are no longer categories in an existential phenomenology of Attention or Tyrolean woodcraft but fully amortised within the evident detritus of the Second World War, constantly alluded to in The White Stones.
  • The accumulation of linguistic relics is not just so much cultural detritus.
  • Threadlike cilia-bearing tentacles probe for food, such as forams, detritus, and even the occasional buried bivalve, and bring it to the mouth where a large radula grinds it up.
  • Recent crinoids are passive suspension feeders on microscopic plant and animal plankton and organic detritus by means of the tubefeet of the water vascular system in their arms and pinnules.
  • All sorts of human detritus, apart from the obvious, has passed through the dank subterranean chambers. Times, Sunday Times
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