sooty blotch

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a disease, especially of apples and pears, characterized by sootlike spots or blotches on the fruit, caused by a fungus, Gloeodes pomigena.

a disease of clover, characterized by black, crusty blotches on the underside of the leaves, caused by a fungus, Cymadothea trifolii.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

One variety for cutting, known as "cinnamon blotch," is a leaf of good body and is considered an excellent tobacco for chewing.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
The black of her dress was a sooty black, but you would only have called her hair black because there was nothing else to call it.
Mushroom Town|Oliver Onions
It was an aged female that spoke; she sat on the ground all clad in a sooty garment.
Fifty-Two Stories For Girls|Various
There was indeed a blotch on one of the negatives, which I was assured was a spirit.
Mystic London:|Charles Maurice Davies

It came out a scraggy blotch of white paint, with its black eyes glaring like two great glass beads!
Martin Rattler|R.M. Ballantyne