The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word NGAIO
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More clues leading to the result NGAIO
- Antipodean timber supplier’s refusal to bear reduced profit
- Marsh is often seen by this tree
- Little tree giving up nothing? One silver nutmeg, at first
- . Marsh, perhaps, never accommodating a lot of steps?
- A keg fashioned with this whitewood? Ageing oak possibly
- Tree surgeon’s last journey across road
- Marsh tree, some sequoia, gnarled, twisted
- Marsh ground in Goa?
- Tree‘s no good? It’s given first-class oxygen
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The straight part
We know that "Marsh/tree" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case marsh/tree = ngaio.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does NGAIO mean?
NGAIO noun- An evergreen tree, Myoporum laetum, native to New Zealand.