Parents often wonder what effect thumb sucking or sucking on a pacifier might have on their baby's teeth.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

The American Academy of Family Physicians says most children stop sucking their thumb by the age of four.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

There was a purple mark on it that looked like four small fingers and a little thumb.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

The index finger is the one next to the thumb;

VOA: special.2009.02.25

Then pinch the new shoots between your thumb and forefinger.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

In school,some students thumb their nose at their teacher.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

the ring finger is third from the thumb.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

Or maybe just a master at thumb wars.

VOA: special.2009.02.25