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Produces vegetables around bottom of smallholding (6)

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I believe the answer is:

begets

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'produces' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to bodily activities as well as being verbs in their -s form.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?

'vegetables around bottom of smallholding' is the wordplay.
'vegetables' becomes 'beets' (beet is a kind of vegetable).
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'bottom of' indicates one should take the final letters.
The last letter of 'smallholding' is 'g'.
'beets' going around 'g' is 'BEGETS'.

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(Other definitions for begets that I've seen before include "Becomes the father of, as in the Bible" , "Fathers or gives rise to" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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