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Detritus vs Culch - What's the difference?

detritus | culch |

As nouns the difference between detritus and culch

is that detritus is pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion while culch is the rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves.

As a verb culch is

to prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments.

detritus

English

Noun

(wikipedia detritus)
  • (countable, chiefly, geological) pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
  • (biology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
  • debris or fragments of disintegrated material
  • 2001'. "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?" — Chip Kidd. ''The Cheese Monkeys

    Derived terms

    * detrital * detritivore

    culch

    English

    Alternative forms

    * sculch, scultch, kulch, cultch

    Noun

    (-)
  • The rocks, crushed shells, and other sea detritus that create an oyster bed, where oyster spawn can attach themselves.
  • (figuratively, US, New England) To accumulate small household items of little value.
  • Verb

  • To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments.