The correct answer is (D) Objects (found floating in water); the floating wreckage of a ship and its cargo; wreckage of little value found floating on the sea.

Flotsam comes from Anglo-French floteson, Old French floter (to float).

Examples of use:

• As days passed, the flotsam drifted closer and closer to the island.
• All that remained now of his schooner was unsightly flotsam and jetsam.