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Fellow captures a being from another plant (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

martian

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'being from another plant' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'fellow captures a' is the wordplay.
'fellow captures' becomes 'marti' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'a' becomes 'an'.
'marti'+'an'='MARTIAN'

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(Other definitions for martian that I've seen before include "One living on red planet" , "Sci-fi character" , "Being from another planet" , "Relating to one planet" , "Sci-fi alien" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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