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Five lines of green seen as superior to stack of hay (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

limerick

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'five lines of' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.

'green seen as superior to stack of hay' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'green' could be 'lime' (lime is a shade of green) and 'lime' is present in the answer.
'stack' could be 'rick' (rick is a kind of stack) and 'rick' is found in the answer.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for limerick that I've seen before include "Irish county's produced" , "Type of humorous verse" , "Verse form - Irish city" , "Humorous five-line verse" , "[EDWARD LEAR] work" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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