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The phrase "a patch of moss" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a small area covered with moss, often in a natural setting.
Example: "As we walked through the forest, we stumbled upon a patch of moss that looked like a soft green carpet."
Alternatives: "a clump of moss" or "a spot of moss".
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A white ladybug lands on a patch of moss.
There is not one tree or tuft of grass, not even a patch of moss.
The African Pterognatha gigas resembles a patch of moss or lichen with a few strands, its antennae, sticking out.
As a child I would wander off alone whenever I got the chance, to find a patch of moss to sit on and spend the afternoon watching ladybirds and picking flowers to press.
Two risk-embracing boffins don hazchem suits and tiptoe into hell for a startling documentary that features seven-foot catfish, spiders glumly spinning wonky webs, and a patch of moss that provokes much running and screaming.
If you're still facing the way you were when you walked in, there should be a patch of moss to your right.
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I lifted a patch of green moss and spread the ashes on the soil.
LISA SCHWARZBAUM Manhattan From a small patch of moss sprouts a double blade of grass, newborn, and thin as dental floss.
Then I noticed a large patch of moss almost the measurement of my intended tower.
Today, a study in Science Advances synthesizes results from Manaus with those from similar experiments worldwide, confirming what scientists have long suspected: no matter the ecosystem — forest, prairie, patch of moss — the effects of habitat fragmentation are ruinous.
Further along the riverbank, on a patch of burnt ground, I found bonfire moss, Funaria hygrometrica, growing amid the blackened earth and charcoal.
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