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green-fingered

green-fingered adjective: having a seemingly natural gardening ability.

Adjective

green-fingered (comparative more green-fingered, superlative most green-fingered)

  1. (UK) Having a seemingly natural gardening ability.
    • Your basil is doing well, you must be green-fingered.
    • Some of the most green fingered may also want to propagate and graft on our existing specimens.1989, University of Idaho College of Forestry, Wildlife, and Range Sciences, Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology, Women in Natural Resources, Volumes 8-10, page 23
    Synonyms:
    green-thumbed

Examples of green-fingered in a sentence

  • My garden was rather outstanding, the work of Mrs Poole and myself during our more green-fingered moments.2007, Andrew O'Hagan, Be Near Me, page 122:
  • NATURE'S most green-fingered creatures, ants have been cultivating gardens of tasty fungus for 50 million years, according to scientists.2006, Augustus Brown, Why Pandas Do Handstands: And Other Curious Truths about Animals, page 200:
  • Cherries were first cultivated in the region by Richard Harrys, one of the Tudor era′s most green-fingered and forward-looking experts.2008, Christopher Somerville, Walks in the Country Near London, page 98:

Synonyms of green-fingered

Forms of green-fingered

comparativemore green-fingered
superlativemost green-fingered

Questions about green-fingered

What does green-fingered mean?
Green-fingered means having a seemingly natural gardening ability.
How do you use green-fingered in a sentence?
My garden was rather outstanding, the work of Mrs Poole and myself during our more green-fingered moments.
What part of speech is green-fingered?
Green-fingered is an adjective.

Words near green-fingered in the dictionary

  1. green-coats
  2. green-collar
  3. green-eyed
  4. green-eyed monster
  5. green-eyed monsters
  6. green-fingered
  7. green-finned
  8. green-flag
  9. green-flags
  10. green-flies
  11. green-fly

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