"brown thumb" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-au-brown thumb.ogg [Australia] Forms: brown thumbs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} brown thumb (plural brown thumbs)
  1. (idiomatic) Lack of skill at growing plants; something possessed by a poor gardener. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: green thumb Translations (lack of skill at growing plants): viherpeukalo keskellä kämmentä (Finnish), pouce brun [Quebec, masculine] (French)
    Sense id: en-brown_thumb-en-noun-ZYywXFmy Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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