"green-fingered" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more green-fingered [comparative], most green-fingered [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} green-fingered (comparative more green-fingered, superlative most green-fingered)
  1. (chiefly UK) Having a seemingly natural gardening ability. Tags: UK Synonyms: green-thumbed Related terms: green fingers, green thumbs
    Sense id: en-green-fingered-en-adj-riHPFiA~ Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header

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          "text": "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,\nSome of the most green fingered may also want to propagate and graft on our existing specimens."
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          "text": "2002, Margaret Smith, Aspects of Teaching Secondary Geography: Perspectives on Practice, The Open University, page 250,\nFailing that, the more green-fingered students may be encouraged to volunteer time to maintain the garden,which should be low-intervention maintenance to preserve the area for wildlife."
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          "ref": "2006, Augustus Brown, Why Pandas Do Handstands: And Other Curious Truths about Animals, page 200",
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          "ref": "2008, Christopher Somerville, Walks in the Country Near London, page 98",
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          "text": "2002, Margaret Smith, Aspects of Teaching Secondary Geography: Perspectives on Practice, The Open University, page 250,\nFailing that, the more green-fingered students may be encouraged to volunteer time to maintain the garden,which should be low-intervention maintenance to preserve the area for wildlife."
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