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Fellow appearing repeatedly with a leguminous plant (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

alfalfa

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'leguminous plant' is the definition.
'alfalfa' can be an answer for 'plant' (alfalfa is a kind of plant). I am not sure about the 'leguminous' bit.

'fellow appearing repeatedly with a' is the wordplay.
'fellow appearing' becomes 'alf' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'repeatedly' says to double the letters.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'alf' doubled is 'alfalf'.
'alfalf'+'a'='ALFALFA'

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(Other definitions for alfalfa that I've seen before include "food plant" , "Lucerne, a fodder plant" , "cattle feed" , "odder plant" , "A forage plant" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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