At first you use carpet combs, anxiously searching for Adam's needles (6)
I believe the answer is:
yuccas
'adam's needles' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both plants as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'at first you use carpet combs anxiously searching' is the wordplay.
'at first' says to take the initial letters.
The first letters of 'you use carpet combs anxiously searching' is 'YUCCAS'.
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for yuccas that I've seen before include "... tropical American plants" , "Spanish daggers" , "Evergreen plants with tall stout stems" .)