The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word WALLFLOWER
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More clues leading to the result WALLFLOWER
- Bash mouse with every bit of the blooming thing!
- Non-participant, beginning to watch everyone, beginning to feel less prominent
- Lonely female at dance makes a bloomer
- Fluid taken in by hippopotamus, say — one that's shy?
- Failing to store pounds up, dourer retiring person
- No dancer recalled mistake about line further down
- Shy person is reveller around Florida
- One lacking a blooming partner?
- I don’t dance with everyone following description of depression?
- With everyone loud, humble one’s sidelined
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The straight part
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What does WALLFLOWER mean?
WALLFLOWER noun- Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.
- Gastrolobium grandiflorum, a poisonous bushy shrub, endemic to Australia.
- A person who is socially awkward, especially one who does not dance at a party due to shyness.
- To stand shyly apart from a dance, waiting to be asked to join in.