How to pronounce“detritivores”in English

They're detritivores, meaning they consume dead and decaying organic material.

And even the decomposers and detritivores perform an important service by not letting all that dead stuff and waste lie around for too long.

Decomposers, like fungi and detritivores, break down decaying organic matter.

What do you think is in the red arrows, going off to the detritivores?

Fungi use chemical reactions to do the trick, and our friend the dung beetle is one of those detritivores, and he eats dung.

These are scavengers who wait for something else to do the killing before they dig into the carcass, and detritivores, who eat bits

And then there are the -vores that decompose all the dead animal and plant matter, as well as the animal poop: detritivores.