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Frond in meadow flower's opening (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

leaf

'frond' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'meadow flower's opening' is the wordplay.
'meadow' becomes 'lea' (a lea is a grassy area).
'opening' says to take the initial letters.
The initial letter of 'flower' is 'f'.
'lea'+'f'='LEAF'

'in' is the link.

(Other definitions for leaf that I've seen before include "Two pages of a book" , "following 28 [SILVER]" , "Part of tree or book" , "Organ of photosynthesis in plants" , "Single sheet of a book" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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