Bush minor loses love for exercise (7)
I believe the answer is:
juniper
'bush' is the definition.
(I know that juniper is a type of bush)
'minor loses love for exercise' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'exercise' could be 'pe' (Physical Education) and 'pe' is found within the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for juniper that I've seen before include "Plant producing berries used to flavour gin" , "Coniferous shrub with berries used to make gin" , "kind of berries" , "Evergreen shrub or small tree with berry-like cones" , "Shrub providing flavour for gin" .)