detritus

detritus

noun

Definition of DETRITUS

the portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyed <the expanse of tree stumps represented the detritus of a vast forest that had been mercilessly clear-cut>

Synonyms ashes, debris, detritus, flotsam, residue, rubble, ruins, wreck, wreckage

Related Words jetsam, leavings, remnant; chaff, deadwood, dross, dust, garbage, junk, litter, refuse, riffraff, rubbish, scrap, trash, waste