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Erato for example holds head of European flower (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

meuse

'flower' is the definition.
(Meuse River is an example)

'erato for example holds head of european' is the wordplay.
'erato for example' becomes 'muse' (Erato was the Greek muse of poetry).
'holds' is an insertion indicator.
'head of' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'european' is 'e'.
'muse' enclosing 'e' is 'MEUSE'.

(Another definition for meuse that I've seen is " Dept of NE France".)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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