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-- Detritus --
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Detritus

De`tri´tus
n.1.(Geol.) A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.
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.
Noun1.Detritusdetritus - the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up
Synonyms: debris, junk, rubble, dust
2.detritus - loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks
afterglow, afterimage, alluvion, alluvium, balance, breccia, butt, butt end, candle ends, chaff, debris, deposit, diluvium, drift, end, fag end, filings, fossil, grain, granule, granulet, gravel, grit, holdover, husks, leavings, leftovers, loess, moraine, odds and ends, offscourings, orts, parings, rags, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, rubbish, ruins, rump, sand, sawdust, scourings, scraps, scree, sediment, shadow, shavings, shingle, silt, sinter, straw, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, trace, vestige, waste

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