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Little flower joiner found about mid-July (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

rivulet

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'little flower' is the definition.
'rivulet' can be an answer for 'flower' (thesaurus). I'm not sure about the 'little' bit.

'joiner found about mid-july' is the wordplay.
'joiner' becomes 'rivet' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'found about' is an insertion indicator.
'mid' means to look at the middle letters (mid- can mean the middle of something).
The middle letters of 'july' are 'ul'.
'rivet' going around 'ul' is 'RIVULET'.

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(Other definitions for rivulet that I've seen before include "Vile rut for small stream" , "burn" , "fast stream" , "Big stream" , "Brook" .)

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