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Swimming team's mostly neat, languid swimmers (8)

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I believe the answer is:

manatees

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'languid swimmers' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are plural nouns, I can't see how they can define each other.

'swimming team's mostly neat' is the wordplay.
'swimming' indicates anagramming the letters (letters swim around into a new order).
'mostly' means to remove the first letter.
'teams' with its first letter taken away is 'eams'.
'eams'+'neat'='eamsneat'
'eamsneat' is an anagram of 'MANATEES'.

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(Other definitions for manatees that I've seen before include "Large plant-eating mammals of tropical waters" , "Sirenians" , "Water creatures" , "Men at sea (anag) - aquatic mammals" .)

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