detrita

English

Noun

detrita

  1. (rare) plural of detritus
    • 2007 April 22, New York Times‎:
      My earth science teacher in high school explained that Jamaica Avenue was situated on the geological terminal moraine, whereupon the glaciers of millions of years past deposited their detrita.

Quotations
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Anagrams

Latin

Participle

dētrīta

  1. inflection of dētrītus:
    1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/nominative neuter plural

Participle

dētrītā

  1. ablative feminine singular of dētrītus
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