Feeding on or consuming detritus and organic debris; another word for detritivorous.
Variant form of 'detritivorous', combining 'detritus' with '-vorous' (to eat). The shorter form is used interchangeably in biological contexts.
Detrivorous organisms are nature's cleanup crew—without them, dead material would pile up endlessly instead of cycling back into the ecosystem.
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