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detritus
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synonyms: talus ???
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Definition:loose fragments, such as rocks pieces; debris from disintegrating or decomposing material;
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For a while the spiders were building webs everywhere, and now those webs are all blown to shreds and tatters, so I suppose we can imagine well-fed spiders tucked up in the detritus of old leaves, drowsing away the very thought of toil.
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead, p.192 (2004)
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For the Ulanga, traveling at its usual breakneck speed, is charged with all sorts of detritus,
Cecil Scott Forester. The African Queen, p.99 (1935)
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"Tarawa is like Majuro was thirty years ago. There's nothing there," she said, betraying in her voice a distinct air of superiority, as if any island not yet awash in the detritus of Americana must be very primitive indeed.
J. Maarten Troost. The Sex Lives of Cannibals, p.31 (2004)
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Your Majesty can conceive the magnitude and violence of the natural forces which overwhelmed their country with moving sheets of ice not less that 5,000 coprets in thickness, grinding down every eminence, destroying (of course) all animal and vegetable life and leaving the region a fathomless bog of detritus.
Ambrose Bierce. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1
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