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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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This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious.
So in lieu of packing, I spent Saturday sniffling and blubbering over two years of Scottish detritus.
They are irresistibly drawn by the detritus generated by building, gardening, housework, tailoring, or carpentry.
The less said about this disheveled misogynistic piece of detritus the better.
Thus the mesofauna represent an important trophic link of the detritus food chain to terrestrial vertebrates.
In addition, parching scorches off the long barbed ends of the chaff and destroys any detritus left after cleaning.

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