The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TORSI
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result TORSI
- Trunks, rarely twisting, on being removed from the bottom
- Is rubbish put back in trunks?
- Trunks featuring in elephant or similar
- Principally trees’ old roots support immense trunks
- Trunks of trees or roots seem impenetrable initially
- Trunks show up one’s balls
- Rotis made by trunks
- Elephant on edge, or some injury on top of trunks
- Dangerous asteroid leaves mostly dead bodies
- Eminence is back for parts of statues
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The straight part
We know that "Principally trees’ old roots support immense trunks" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case principally trees’ old roots support immense trunks = torsi.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TORSI mean?
TORSI noun- The main part of the (human) body that extends from the neck to the groin, excluding the head and limbs.