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Plant transporting meat is shown (8)

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I believe the answer is:

revealed

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'is shown' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'plant transporting meat' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'meat' could be 'veal' (veal is a kind of meat) and 'veal' is found in the answer.
'plant' could be 'reed' (reed is a kind of plant) and 'reed' is found within the remaining letters.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for revealed that I've seen before include "Made known to others" , "Like the religion" , "Shown" , "'Made known, disclosed (8)'" , "Exposed" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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