The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TOBACCO
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result TOBACCO
- Leaves a couple of cents in battered boot
- Leaves company after return of Italian explorer
- Traveller set up business supplying stuff from Virginia
- Plant treated cocoa seeds in big tub
- Leaves to set up taxi firm
- Explorer taken aback by firm producing harmful product
- Commander and navigator retired for shag?
- Shag caught countless oysters, initially behind boat at sea
- Web crawler brought up account of smoker’s requisite
- Plant obtained by explorer turning up with company
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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 = tobacco.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 TOBACCO mean?
TOBACCO noun- Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
- Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
- A variety of tobacco.
- To indulge in tobacco; to smoke.
- To treat with tobacco.