Noun: flotsam flót-sum
- The floating wreckage of a ship
"Rescuers searched the ocean for survivors and flotsam from the sunken vessel";
- jetsam
- Worthless or discarded objects
"The attic was full of flotsam from decades past"
Derived forms: flotsams
Type of: wreckage
Encyclopedia: Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict