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Vegetable is large – it's frightening (4)

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I believe the answer is:

leek

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'vegetable' is the definition.
(leek is a kind of vegetable)

'large it's frightening' is the wordplay.
'large' becomes 'L' (eg in clothes sizes).
'it's frightening' becomes 'eek' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'l'+'eek'='LEEK'

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(Other definitions for leek that I've seen before include "Plant (onion relative) eaten as a vegetable" , "Foodstuff" , "Plant related to the onion, pair with potato for soup" , "National emblem of Wales." , "One of the veggies" .)

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