The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word HERBARIA
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result HERBARIA
- A woman’s song about British plant collections
- Plant collections that female coffee shop employee displayed? No way
- A female’s song about a billion collections of dried plants
- Man in Berlin receives degree on Iowa’s plant collections
- Save one acre east of woman’s dried plant collections
- Bear hair entangled in collection of dried plants
- Song she sang about bishop where 2 etc found?
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The straight part
We know that "plant collections" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case plant collections = herbaria.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.
What does HERBARIA mean?
HERBARIA noun- A collection of dried plants or parts of plants.
- A building or institution where such a collection is kept.