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Veg giving little brother dreadful colic (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

broccoli

'veg' is the definition.
(type of vegetable)

'giving little brother dreadful colic' is the wordplay.
'giving' says to put letters next to each other.
'little brother' becomes 'bro'.
'dreadful' is an anagram indicator.
'colic' anagrammed gives 'ccoli'.
'bro' next to 'ccoli' is 'BROCCOLI'.

(Other definitions for broccoli that I've seen before include "Vegetable with tightly packed green or purple flower heads" , "Food" , "Type of vegetable" , "green veg" , "Variety of cabbage, green heads" .)

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