brown patch

noun

, Plant Pathology.

a fungus disease of turf grass that results in circular areas of brown, dead grass.

No matter how high the snow might drift around it, this small brown patch of earth lay dark and bare.

We stood at the gate of the sandy range, which here, like a vast brown patch, disfigures the beauty of the sierra.

"A brown patch in the big main-topsail, and the bowsprit steeved more'n ordinary," said Joe.

A small Warbler with a reddish brown patch in the back, yellowish wing-bars, and much white in the tail.

In the edge of the forest, not more than two miles from the camp, she detected a mere brown patch in the browning bush.

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