Cryptic crossword clue
Overuse breed of plant 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word STRAIN

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The straight part
We know that "Overuse/breed of plant" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case overuse/breed of plant = strain.
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 STRAIN mean?

STRAIN noun
  1. Treasure.
  2. The blood-vessel in the yolk of an egg.
  3. Race; lineage, pedigree.
  4. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition.
  5. A tendency or disposition.
  6. Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style
  7. A particular breed or race of animal, microbe etc.
  8. A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a movement.
  9. A kind or sort (of person etc.).
  10. Language that is eloquent, poetic, or otherwise heightened.
STRAIN noun
  1. The act of straining, or the state of being strained.
  2. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles.
  3. An injury resulting from violent effort; a sprain.
  4. A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
  5. The track of a deer.
STRAIN verb
  1. To hold tightly, to clasp.
  2. To apply a force or forces to by stretching out.
  3. To damage by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force.
  4. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or volume, as when bending a beam.
  5. To exert or struggle (to do something), especially to stretch (one's senses, faculties etc.) beyond what is normal or comfortable.
  6. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in terms of intent or meaning.
  7. To separate solid from liquid by passing through a strainer or colander
  8. To percolate; to be filtered.
  9. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent effort; to force; to constrain.
  10. To urge with importunity; to press.
  11. Hug somebody; to hold somebody tightly.
STRAIN verb
  1. To beget, generate (of light), engender, copulate (both of animals and humans), lie with, be born, come into the world.

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