Detritus vs Flotsam - What's the difference?
detritus | flotsam |
(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
Debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.
As nouns the difference between detritus and flotsam
is that detritus is pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion while flotsam is debris floating in a river or sea, in particular fragments from a shipwreck.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
