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detritral

detritral is the alternative form of detrital.

Meaning of detrital

Adjective

detrital (comparative more detrital, superlative most detrital)

  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.1964, N.D. Bespalov, Soils of Outer Mongolia, page 172

Forms of detritral

comparativemore detritral
superlativemost detritral

Questions about detritral

What is detritral the alternative form of?
Detritral is the alternative form of detrital.

Words near detritral in the dictionary

  1. detritophage
  2. detritophages
  3. detritophagous
  4. detritophagy
  5. detritovore
  6. detritral
  7. detritus
  8. detritusphere
  9. detrituspheres
  10. detritylate
  11. detritylated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detritral (page history and authors); detrital (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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