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Glandular tumour? Notice one rising mother? (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

adenoma

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'glandular tumour?' is the definition.
'adenoma' can be an answer for 'tumour?' (adenoma is a kind of tumour). I'm not certain of the 'glandular' bit.

'notice one rising mother?' is the wordplay.
'notice' becomes 'ad' (short for advert).
'rising' is a reversal indicator (going up in a down clue).
'mother?' becomes 'ma' (ma can mean mother).
'one' backwards is 'eno'.
'ad'+'eno'+'ma'='ADENOMA'

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(Another definition for adenoma that I've seen is " Benign tumour".)

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