The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ANGELICA
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More clues leading to the result ANGELICA
- Sponsor about to secure one plant
- A nice gal prepared cake decoration
- Frau Merkel’s current carbon storage plant?
- Plant in gale shaken about
- Innocent answer that provides flavour
- In a gale, struggling to maintain cold plant
- One giving financial support to London arts centre gets decoration
- Treasure nameless old South American plant
- Herb’s patron to a gallery
- Very good article for cake decoration
Buddy explains!
The straight part
We know that "plant" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case plant = angelica.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does ANGELICA mean?
ANGELICA noun- A tall plant, with hollow stems, genus Angelica, especially the garden angelica (Angelica archangelica).
- Candied stems of the plant, used to decorate cookies.
- Species of Aralia.
- A plucked bowl lute with two necks and most often sixteen strings, played in the manner of a harp, and popular in Baroque Europe.