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A flower an animal found by mistake (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cowslip

'a flower' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'an animal found by mistake' is the wordplay.
'an animal' becomes 'cow' (cow is a kind of animal).
'found by' says to put letters next to each other.
'mistake' becomes 'slip' (a slip is a blunder or mistake).
'cow'+'slip'='COWSLIP'

(Other definitions for cowslip that I've seen before include "Yellow flower for unsteady bovine?" , "bloomer" , "Plant with yellow flower" , "Yellow spring flower" , "Flowering plant" .)

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