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green fingers

plural noun

, British Informal.


green fingers

plural noun

  1. considerable talent or ability to grow plants US and Canadian equivalentgreen thumb
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of green fingers1

First recorded in 1930–35
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Example Sentences

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

He could see the brown and green fingers of seaweed clutching the sand when the waves went out.

Overhead the spruce boughs met, and laced their green fingers together, sending down a damp, spicy odor.

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