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"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/aɪtəs",
"Rhymes:English/aɪtəs/3 syllables",
"Terms with Catalan translations",
"Terms with Dutch translations",
"Terms with Esperanto translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Hebrew translations",
"Terms with Irish translations",
"Terms with Latin translations",
"Terms with Mandarin translations",
"Terms with Maori translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"en:Geology"
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"derived": [
{
"word": "biodetritus"
},
{
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"word": "detrital"
},
{
"tags": [
"adjective"
],
"word": "detritic"
},
{
"word": "detriticolous"
},
{
"word": "detritivore"
},
{
"word": "detritivorous"
},
{
"word": "detritophage"
},
{
"word": "detrivore"
},
{
"word": "microdetritus"
},
{
"word": "phytodetritus"
},
{
"word": "zoodetritus"
}
],
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"args": {
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"2": "la",
"3": "dētrītus",
"4": "",
"5": "(that which is) rubbed away"
},
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"name": "bor"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin dētrītus (“(that which is) rubbed away”), from dēterō (“rub away”).",
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{
"form": "detritus",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "detrita",
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"plural",
"rare"
]
}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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{
"word": "detriment"
},
{
"word": "detrimental"
}
],
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{
"categories": [
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"en:Geology"
],
"glosses": [
"Pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion."
],
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[
"geology",
"geology"
],
[
"rock",
"rock"
],
[
"ice",
"ice"
],
[
"glacier",
"glacier"
],
[
"erosion",
"erosion"
]
],
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"(countable, chiefly geology) Pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion."
],
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"usually"
],
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"geography",
"geology",
"natural-sciences"
]
},
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"en:Biology",
"en:Ecology"
],
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{
"ref": "2009, Christian Wirth, Gerd Gleixner, Martin Heimann, Old-Growth Forests: Function, Fate and Value, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 159:",
"text": "Woody detritus is an important component of forested ecosystems. It can reduce erosion and affects soil development, stores nutrients and water, provides a major source of energy and nutrients, and serves as a seedbed for plants and as a major habitat for decomposers and hetereotrophs.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals."
],
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"biology",
"biology"
],
[
"ecology",
"ecology"
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[
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"(biology, ecology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals."
],
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"usually"
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"biology",
"ecology",
"natural-sciences"
]
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "2001, Chip Kidd, The Cheese Monkeys:",
"text": "But of course: no clutter. No newspapers, no renegade scraps of domestic detritus, no rubber bands, paper clips, coupons, pens or pencils, notebooks, magazines. No knives. Where were the knives?",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2022 September 7, Tom Allett, “At the cutting edge of NR's track work”, in RAIL, number 965, page 39:",
"text": "The cutting head removes any chips out of the railhead and restores the required surface shape. The trains also clear up their own detritus as they travel. Neither milling chips nor grinding dust remain on the track.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Any debris or fragments of disintegrated material."
],
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[
"debris",
"debris"
],
[
"fragment",
"fragment"
],
[
"disintegrated",
"disintegrated"
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],
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"(by extension) Any debris or fragments of disintegrated material."
],
"tags": [
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"uncountable",
"usually"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"Rock consisting of accumulated debris from decayed rocks, like sand, that often is joined by cement."
],
"links": [
[
"debris",
"debris"
],
[
"cement",
"cement"
]
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/dɪˈtɹaɪ.təs/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪtəs"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yán xiè",
"sense": "geology: pieces of rock broken off",
"word": "岩屑"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "geology: pieces of rock broken off",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "detrito"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "geology: pieces of rock broken off",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Detritus"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "geology: pieces of rock broken off",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Geröll"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "geology: pieces of rock broken off",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Gesteinschutt"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "geology: pieces of rock broken off",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "detrytus"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "detrít",
"sense": "geology: pieces of rock broken off",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "детри́т"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "geology: pieces of rock broken off",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "detritus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "biology: organic waste material",
"word": "detritus"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "biology: organic waste material",
"word": "karike"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "biology: organic waste material",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "detrito"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "biology: organic waste material",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Verwitterungsmaterial"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "biology: organic waste material",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Mulm"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "raqáv",
"sense": "biology: organic waste material",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "רָקָב"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "biology: organic waste material",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "turscar"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "biology: organic waste material",
"word": "toenga whakapopo"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "biology: organic waste material",
"word": "pōpopo"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "biology: organic waste material",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "detrytus"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "detrít",
"sense": "biology: organic waste material",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "детри́т"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "biology: organic waste material",
"word": "detritus"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "debris or fragments of disintegrated material",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "detritus"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "debris or fragments of disintegrated material",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "detrit"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "debris or fragments of disintegrated material",
"word": "rubo"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "debris or fragments of disintegrated material",
"word": "detritus"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "debris or fragments of disintegrated material",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Überrest"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "debris or fragments of disintegrated material",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "Trümmer"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "debris or fragments of disintegrated material",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "strāgēs"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oblomki",
"sense": "debris or fragments of disintegrated material",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "обломки"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "oskolki",
"sense": "debris or fragments of disintegrated material",
"tags": [
"plural"
],
"word": "осколки"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "debris or fragments of disintegrated material",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "detritus"
}
],
"word": "detritus"
}
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