| 单词 | green-fingered |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreen-fingered green-fingered adj. skilful or successful in making plants grow; (also) characteristic of a person who is skilled in this way. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > [adjective] > successful in gardening green-fingered1918 green-thumbed1937 1918 L. B. Wilder Color in My Garden i. 3 Under the care of our green-fingered grandmothers gardens throve and were full of hearty, wholesome colour. 1946 Nature 28 Dec. 941/2 The arts of budding and grafting can only be fully acquired by observing the green-fingered dexterity of the experienced propagator. 1966 Lancet 31 Dec. 1461/2 Trees like this..would soon be produced by hybridisation and plant-hormones under the green-fingered genius of him and his helpers. 2003 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 9 Mar. 63/1 (heading) Homemakers, handypeople, decorators, renovators, carpenters and green-fingered gardeners put a love lock on Brisbane's Home Show and Garden Expo. < as lemmas |
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