The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SNOWDROP
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result SNOWDROP
- Flower finally dies now, getting very little rain
- Busybody going round with doctor's plant
- Plant as present found in small delivery
- Flower at present lying in small ditch
- Spy gathers women’s medic is one in 21 down
- Avalanche?
- Flower, small at present, ahead of fall
- Contrary part of the brain welcoming naughty word, the blooming thing
- Plant beginning to sag, promptly prod ground
- As herald of spring, wintry weather event?
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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 = snowdrop.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 SNOWDROP mean?
SNOWDROP noun- Any of the 20 species of the genus Galanthus of the Amaryllidaceae, bulbous flowering plants, bearing a solitary, pendulous, white, bell-shaped flower that appears, depending on species, between autumn and late winter or early spring, all native to temperate Eurasia.
- To steal clothing (especially women's underwear) from a clothesline.