The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word LARCH
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More clues leading to the result LARCH
- Big growth in naval architecture
- Tree line to extend over
- Supplier of wood and new driver, superior
- Left next to mischievous tree
- Wood stored in cellar, cheaply
- Check on tailless bird in tree
- Tree that’s between poplar and chestnut
- Tree that’s essential to classical architecture
- Father having dropped from tree, cutting head on hard wood
- Bend in left hand tree
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The straight part
We know that "Tree" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case tree = larch.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 LARCH mean?
LARCH noun- A coniferous tree, of genus Larix, having deciduous leaves, in fascicles.
- The wood of the larch.