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Ships taking care of flowers (8)

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I believe the answer is:

coasters

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'ships' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'care of flowers' is the wordplay.
'care of' becomes 'co' (c/o can mean 'care of' when addressing mail).
'flowers' becomes 'asters' (aster is a type of flower).
'co'+'asters'='COASTERS'

'taking' is the link.

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(Other definitions for coasters that I've seen before include "Small mats for Socrates" , "Small table-mats" , "Merchant ships with a limited range of operation" .)

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