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detritus
in
Lord of the Flies
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- Perhaps food had appeared where at the last incursion there had been none; bird droppings, insects perhaps, any of the strewn detritus of landward life.†
p. 61.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(detritus) the remains of something that has been broken up or discarded
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)