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Butterfly in Australia of no recognisable type (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

amorphous

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'no recognisable type' is the definition.
The definition and answer are not the same part of speech.

'butterfly in australia' is the wordplay.
'butterfly' becomes 'morpho' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'australia' becomes 'Aus' (abbreviation).
'morpho' put into 'aus' is 'AMORPHOUS'.

'of' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for amorphous that I've seen before include "Characterless" , "irregular" , "Without a clearly-defined shape" , "Shapeless" , "Without clearly defined shape" .)

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