green fingers

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plural nounBritish Informal.

Origin of green fingers

1
First recorded in 1930–35

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How to use green fingers in a sentence

  • She carried something carefully before her, holding it above the reach of the alfalfa's snatching green fingers.

    A Prairie Infanta | Eva Wilder Brodhead
  • He could see the brown and green fingers of seaweed clutching the sand when the waves went out.

    Captives of the Flame | Samuel R. Delany
  • Overhead the spruce boughs met, and laced their green fingers together, sending down a damp, spicy odor.

    Ross Grant Tenderfoot | John Garland

British Dictionary definitions for green fingers

green fingers

pl n
  1. considerable talent or ability to grow plants: US and Canadian equivalent: green thumb

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