blackpatch

[ blak-pach ]

noun

, Plant Pathology.

1. a disease of red and white clover, caused by an unidentified fungus and characterized by brown or blackish lesions on the plant.

Word History and Origins

Origin of blackpatch¹

black + fin ¹

Example Sentences

It's about a pirate called Captain Blackpatch who doesn't like water so he turns his house into a pirate ship.

From The Guardian

As he stood musing on the apparently forlorn hope of a customer, an old man, much bent, with a grey beard, and a patch over his left eye as big as the blind of him of forging celebrity, "Blackpatch" himself, came up to him, and at once offered him eight pounds a-head for his stock.

From Project Gutenberg

Their master was the Lord of Combe Ivy that lay in the southern valleys of the hills toward the sea; he owned the grazing on the whole circle of the Downs between the two great roads—on Amberley and Perry and Wepham and Blackpatch and Cockhill and Highdown and Barnsfarm and Sullington and Chantry.

From Project Gutenberg