Adult female briefly aroused and consumed with emotion (6)
I believe the answer is:
aflame
'consumed with emotion' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'adult female briefly aroused' is the wordplay.
'adult' becomes 'a' (abbreviation).
'briefly' means to remove the last letter.
'aroused' indicates an anagram (letters roused or stirred up into a new form).
'female' with its last letter taken away is 'femal'.
'femal' anagrammed gives 'flame'.
'a'+'flame'='AFLAME'
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for aflame that I've seen before include "Indicating excitement" , "Ablaze" , "On fire" , "very hot" , "Ma, flea could be burning" .)