dollar spot

noun

: a disease of golf-green and lawn grasses caused by a fungus (Sclerotinia homeocarpa) and characterized by areas in the turf about two inches in diameter that are first brownish but become bleached straw colored and finally coalesce to form large irregular patches compare grease spot

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