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yellow patches

yellow patches is the plural of yellow patch.

Meaning of yellow patch

Noun

yellow patch (countable and uncountable, plural yellow patches)

  1. (uncountable) A disease affecting several varieties of grasses, including bentgrasses, annual bluegrass, some perennial ryegrass and Kentucky bluegrass, which results in the development of yellow or brown rings.
    • Throughout the year pathologists receive numerous samples of yellow, creeping bentgrass or annual bluegrass (Poa annua) from putting greens. In autumn or spring, superintendents sometimes suspect that yellow tuft (Sclerophthora macrospora) or yellow patch (Rhizoctonia cerealis) diseases are the...2002, Peter H. Dernoeden, Creeping Bentgrass Management: Summer Stresses, Weeds and Selected Maladies, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 25
  2. (historical) A yellow badge.

Questions about yellow patches

What is yellow patches the plural of?
Yellow patches is the plural of yellow patch.

Words near yellow patches in the dictionary

  1. yellow pages
  2. yellow paint
  3. yellow passport
  4. yellow passports
  5. yellow patch
  6. yellow patches
  7. yellow pea
  8. yellow pepper
  9. yellow peppers
  10. yellow perch
  11. yellow perches

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