detritus
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Detritus in the water around them can clog their complex filtration system, forcing the creatures to clean themselves out.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 10, 2022
Detritus is made up of decaying plant and animal material.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
Detritus lay heaped in front of every house on Talton Street.
From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2017
Detritus from dead plants and animals that settled to the bottom was buried by sediment and broke down into methane after million of years.
From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2017
Detritus, de-trī′tus, n. a mass of substance gradually rubbed or worn off solid bodies: an aggregate of broken or loosened fragments, esp. of rock.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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