Cryptic crossword clue
Unwelcome visitors for fruit plants 12

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 12 letter word GOOSEBERRIES

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What does GOOSEBERRIES mean?

GOOSEBERRIES noun
  1. A fruit, Ribes uva-crispa, related to the currant.
  2. Any other plant or fruit in the subgenus Grossularia, distinguished from currants by bearing spines, including Ribes hirtellum, the American gooseberry.
  3. Any of several other plants that are not closely related but bear fruit in some way similar:
  4. (British slang) A chaperone.
  5. An additional person who is neither necessary nor wanted in a given situation.
  6. (British slang) A fool.
  7. (British slang) A fantastic story; a tall tale; a hoax.
  8. (British slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

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