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In brothers’ house cultivate liliaceous plant (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fritillary

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'liliaceous plant' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both plants as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?

'in brothers' house cultivate' is the wordplay.
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'brothers' house' becomes 'friary' (friary is a kind of house. I am not sure about the 'brothers'' bit.).
'cultivate' becomes 'till' (I've seen this before).
'friary' placed around 'till' is 'FRITILLARY'.

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(Other definitions for fritillary that I've seen before include "Sort of lily" , "Butterfly" , "Plant of the lily family" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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