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Model star Ms Thurman's visiting home of tigers (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

sumatra

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'home of tigers' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both locations as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'model star ms thurman's visiting' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'model' could be 't' (Ford Model T car) and 't' is located in the answer.
'thurman' could be 'uma' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'uma' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for sumatra that I've seen before include "Some land" , "Large Indonesian island" , "Eastern island" , "Second largest Indonesian island" , "Large island of Indonesia" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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