Meaning of yellow patch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   uncountable
2. A yellow badge.
   countable, historical, uncountable

Examples

“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 problem.”

“Yellow patch, sometimes called cool-temperature brown patch, develops during prolonged cool (50-65°F; 10-18°C), overcast, and moist periods from late autumn to early spring⟳.”

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