green thumb

绿拇指,绿色的拇指,绿色拇指,绿色大拇指

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : an exceptional aptitude for gardening or for growing plants successfully: Houseplants provide much pleasure for the city dweller with a green thumb.

nounskill at gardening

Synonyms

We’ve got painters, builders, rock climbers, musicians, board-game aficionados, green thumbs.
My dad has always had a green thumb, but it definitely skipped a generation.
It could be building raised garden beds outside if you have a green thumb and enjoy watching things grow.
Whether you’re in an office or a porch, keeping a plant alive doesn’t always come down to your green thumb.
I really wanted Trenchmouth to succeed and at the time wished we were as big as Green Day.
It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.
I just did one [Geezer] with Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day.
It took me 1,015 strokes to see this shade of green in a world of orange, and my jaw nearly dropped.
At the highest navigable point of the Congo River, thick jungle creates an impenetrable wall of green around a large island.
With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.
The plant as a whole remains green until late in the autumn.
A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
I could see only the stretch of green before me, and I felt as if I must walk on forever, without coming to the end of it.
It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.

Examples

We’ve got painters, builders, rock climbers, musicians, board-game aficionados, green thumbs.

My dad has always had a green thumb, but it definitely skipped a generation.

It could be building raised garden beds outside if you have a green thumb and enjoy watching things grow.

Whether you’re in an office or a porch, keeping a plant alive doesn’t always come down to your green thumb.

I really wanted Trenchmouth to succeed and at the time wished we were as big as Green Day.

It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.

I just did one [Geezer] with Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day.

It took me 1,015 strokes to see this shade of green in a world of orange, and my jaw nearly dropped.

At the highest navigable point of the Congo River, thick jungle creates an impenetrable wall of green around a large island.

With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.

The plant as a whole remains green until late in the autumn.

A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.

I could see only the stretch of green before me, and I felt as if I must walk on forever, without coming to the end of it.

It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.