Symbolic fruit offering better health, clearing cold (10)
I believe the answer is:
figurative
'symbolic' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'fruit offering better health clearing cold' is the wordplay.
'fruit' becomes 'fig' (fig is a kind of fruit).
'offering better health' becomes 'curative'.
'clearing' is a deletion indicator.
'cold' becomes 'c' (eg on taps).
'curative' with 'c' taken away is 'urative'.
'fig'+'urative'='FIGURATIVE'
(Other definitions for figurative that I've seen before include "Metaphorical" , "Symbolic" .)