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Primrose in part of animal’s mouth (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cowslip

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'primrose' is the definition.
(I know that cowslip is a type of primrose)

'part of animal's mouth' is the wordplay.
'part of animal' becomes 'cows' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'mouth' becomes 'lip' (synonyms).
'cows'+'lip'='COWSLIP'

'in' is the link.

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(Other definitions for cowslip that I've seen before include "Yellow spring flower" , "Flower related to primrose" , "Plant with yellow flower" , "Wild flower of primrose family" , "Fictional rabbit" .)

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