I hope masons can depict some form of human being (4,7)

I believe the answer is:

homo sapiens

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'human being' is the definition.
(Homo sapiens is an example)

'i hope masons can' is the wordplay.
'can' indicates an anagram (I've seen 'canned' mean this (canned can mean drunk)).
'i'+'hope'+'masons'='ihopemasons'
'ihopemasons' anagrammed gives 'HOMO SAPIENS'.

'depict some form of' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for homo sapiens that I've seen before include "The one existing species of Man" , "Human species" , "Modern humans" , "Relative of 1 across" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.

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