Cryptic crossword clue
Knave cut a golf club’s trees 10

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word JACARANDAS

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We know that "trees" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case trees = jacarandas.
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Crossword Answer definitions

JACARANDAS noun
  1. Any of several trees, of the genus Jacaranda, native to tropical South America, that have pale purple, funnel-shaped flowers.
  2. The hard, dark wood of these trees.
  3. A trade name for similar hardwood timber from certain species of Dalbergia, notably Dalbergia frutescens, Dalbergia nigra and Dalbergia refusa.

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