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Hurt roughly tailless stork (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

marabou

'stork' is the definition.
(I know that marabou is a type of stork)

'hurt roughly tailless' is the wordplay.
'hurt' becomes 'mar' (both can mean to harm).
'roughly' becomes 'about' (about can mean roughly or approximately).
'tailless' means to remove the last letter (the tail of the word is removed).
'about' with its last letter removed is 'abou'.
'mar'+'abou'='MARABOU'

(Other definitions for marabou that I've seen before include "bird" , "Large African black-and-white stork" , "Fine white, raw silk" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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