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A tree's transformed for the holiday (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

easter

'the holiday' is the definition.
(Easter is a Christian holiday)

'a tree's transformed' is the wordplay.
'transformed' indicates an anagram.
'a'+'trees'='atrees'
'atrees' is an anagram of 'EASTER'.

'for' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for easter that I've seen before include "Christian celebration of the Resurrection" , "Christian celebration for Teresa" , "Important Christian festival" , "Church festival" , "festival time" .)

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