different between clastic vs detritus
clastic
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ??????? (klastós, “broken in pieces”), from ?????? (kláein, “to break”) +? -ic
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æst?k
Adjective
clastic (not comparable)
- Made up of parts that are easily removable.
- (geology, of rock) Made from fragments of pre-existing rocks.
Derived terms
- clast
- volcaniclastic
- pyroclastic
Related terms
- iconoclast
Translations
Noun
clastic (plural clastics)
- (geology) A rock made from fragments of pre-existing rocks.
Romanian
Etymology
From French clastique
Adjective
clastic m or n (feminine singular clastic?, masculine plural clastici, feminine and neuter plural clastice)
- clastic
Declension
clastic From the web:
- what's clastic mean
- what clastic rocks
- what clastic sediment
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detritus
English
Etymology
From Latin d?tr?tus (“the act of rubbing away”), from d?ter? (“rub away”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??t?a?t?s/
- Rhymes: -a?t?s
Noun
detritus (usually uncountable, plural detritus or detrita)
- (countable, chiefly geology) Pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
- (biology, ecology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
- 2009, Christian Wirth, Gerd Gleixner, Martin Heimann, Old-Growth Forests: Function, Fate and Value, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 159:
- 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.
- 2009, Christian Wirth, Gerd Gleixner, Martin Heimann, Old-Growth Forests: Function, Fate and Value, Springer Science & Business Media (?ISBN), page 159:
- (by extension) Any debris or fragments of disintegrated material.
Derived terms
- detrital / detritic
- detritivore
- zoodetritus
Translations
Further reading
- detritus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
Etymology
From d?ter? (“rub away”), from d? (“away”) + ter? (“rub”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /de??tri?.tus/, [d?e??t??i?t??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /de?tri.tus/, [d???t??i?t?us]
Participle
d?tr?tus (feminine d?tr?ta, neuter d?tr?tum); first/second-declension participle
- rubbed away, worn away, worn out, having been rubbed away
- (figuratively) diminished in force, lessened, weakened, impaired, having been weakened
- (figuratively) worn out, trite, hackneyed, having been worn out
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Noun
d?tr?tus m (genitive d?tr?t?s); fourth declension
- The act of rubbing away
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Related terms
- d?ter?
- d?tr?ment?sus
- d?tr?mentum
Descendants
References
- detritus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- detritus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- detritus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Romanian
Etymology
From French détritus, from Latin detritus.
Noun
detritus n (uncountable)
- detritus
Declension
Spanish
Noun
detritus m (plural detritus)
- detritus
detritus From the web:
- what detritus means
- what detritus eat
- what detritus feeders eat
- detritus what does it mean
- detritus what does it do
- what eats detritus worms
- what is detritus food chain
- what are detritus feeders
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