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detassel

detassel verb: to remove the pollen-bearing tassel from (a female maize plant) as part of the hybridization process.

Verb

detassel (third-person singular simple present detassels, present participle (US) detasseling or (UK) detasselling, simple past and past participle (US) detasseled or (UK) detasselled)

  1. (US, transitive) To remove the pollen-bearing tassel from (a female maize plant) as part of the hybridization process.

detassel meaning in Tamil

detassel in Tamil

குஞ்சமகற்றல்

Forms of detassel

third-person singular presentdetassels
present participle USdetasseling
present participle UKdetasselling
past participle USdetasseled
past USdetasseled
past participle UKdetasselled
past UKdetasselled

Origin of detassel

From de- + tassel.

Questions about detassel

What does detassel mean?
Detassel means to remove the pollen-bearing tassel from (a female maize plant) as part of the hybridization process.
What is detassel in Tamil?
Detassel in Tamil is குஞ்சமகற்றல். See Detassel meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is detassel?
Detassel is a verb.
What is the past tense of detassel?
The past tense of detassel is detasseled.

Words near detassel in the dictionary

  1. detartrate
  2. detartrated
  3. detartrates
  4. detartrating
  5. detartration
  6. detassel
  7. detasseled
  8. detasseling
  9. detasselled
  10. detasselling
  11. detassels

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detassel (page history and authors); detassel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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