green thumb

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   a special ability to make plants grow

   Synonymsgreen fingers

   Broaderforte

Questions about green thumb

What does green thumb mean?

green thumb means "a special ability to make plants grow".

What is another word for green thumb?

Close synonyms include green fingers. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is green thumb a common word?

green thumb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.