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What does detritus mean?

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Noun
  1. (countable, chiefly geological) pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
  2. (biology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
  3. debris or fragments of disintegrated material
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The less said about this disheveled misogynistic piece of detritus the better.
So in lieu of packing, I spent Saturday sniffling and blubbering over two years of Scottish detritus.
You rummage through piles of junk in the hopes of finding a gem amongst the detritus.
He is surrounded by the detritus of his addiction in a waste area in the middle of a rubbish dump.
Instead, the aging amtracs are negotiating mine fields of urban detritus, swimming through ruined neighborhoods six feet beneath the fetid water.
Thus the mesofauna represent an important trophic link of the detritus food chain to terrestrial vertebrates.

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