Each lichen is a flat patch bordered by a black line of spores.

"Those buggers are making a nice flat patch so they can aim properly," he explained.

I climbed onto a small, flat patch of grass and boulders.

The flat patch of grassy ground was, on a better day, a sunny open spot among the towering old trees.

A long, flat patch of lush grass bursting from black muck.

She saw a flat patch appear in the mottled red fur.

The next two were lower; beyond them, small in the distance, she saw a flat brown patch.

The farmhouse was wood, with a big open veranda, and stood in a flat patch of rocky ground.

There, the baby was set down on a flat patch of ground while the prayerful removed their shoes and faced West.