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detrital

adj
/diˈtɹaɪtəl/US

Etymology

From detritus + -al.

  1. learned borrowing from dētrītus
  2. suffixed as detrital — “detritus + al”

Definitions

  1. Consisting of, or pertaining to, geological detritus.

    • The light-chestnut soils are much more detrital than the chestnut varieties — not only at the surface but throughout the soil strata, except on sandy tracts.

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