Detritus vs Culch - What's the difference?
detritus | culch |
(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
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.
To prepare an oyster bed with such (culch) attachments.
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)- 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