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Green fingers

noun

A special ability to make plants grow. Synonym: green thumb.

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"Green fingers" Quotes from Famous Books

... branches, the aspect of that tree must have struck the beholder as uncanny, even as horrible. The bark on its great bole was leprous white; and from its gaunt and spreading rungs rose branches that subdivided themselves again and again, till at last they terminated in round green fingers, springing from grey, flat slabs of bark, in shape not unlike that of a human palm. Indeed, from a little distance this tree, especially if viewed by moonlight, had the appearance of bearing on it hundreds or thousands of the arms and hands of men, ...

— The Wizard • H. Rider Haggard

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Words linked to "Green fingers" : strong point, long suit, speciality, specialty, strong suit, metier, strength, forte