Usually means: Debris or waste from disintegration.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. detritus: Merriam-Webster
  2. detritus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. detritus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. detritus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. detritus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Detritus, detritus: Wordnik
  7. detritus: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. detritus: Wiktionary
  9. detritus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. detritus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. detritus: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. detritus: Dictionary.com
  13. detritus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Detritus (Discworld), Detritus (band), Detritus (biology), Detritus (disambiguation), Detritus (geology), Detritus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Detritus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. detritus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. detritus: Rhymezone
  18. Detritus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. detritus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. detritus: FreeDictionary.org
  21. detritus: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. detritus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. detritus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. detritus: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. detritus: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detritus: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Detritus (biology), detritus: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Detritus (biology), detritus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. detritus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Detritus (biology), detritus: Medical dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  3. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  6. detritus: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. detritus: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See detrital as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable, chiefly geology) Pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
noun:  (biology, ecology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
noun:  (by extension) Any debris or fragments of disintegrated material.
noun:  Rock consisting of accumulated debris from decayed rocks, like sand, that often is joined by cement.

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