Detritus

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Loose fragments or grains that have been worn away from rock.
  • n. Disintegrated or eroded matter: the detritus of past civilizations.
  • n. Accumulated material; debris: "Poems, engravings, press releases—he eagerly scrutinizes the detritus of fame” ( Carlin Romano).
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
  • n. Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
  • n. debris or fragments of disintegrated material
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions.
  • n. Hence: Any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In geology, loose, uncompacted fragments of rock, either water-worn or angular.
  • n. More comprehensively, any broken or comminuted, material worn away from a mass by attrition; any aggregate of loosened fragments or particles.
  • n. In pathology, caseous or other disorganized material formed by the destruction of living tissue.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks
  • n. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    stuff    material   
    Cross Reference
    detrusor urinæ   
    Form
    detritivore    detrital   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Titus    Unitas    arthritis    bronchitis    encephalitis   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    rubble    silt    rubbish    wreckage    offal   
     
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