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detasselled

detasselled is the simple past and past participle of detassel.

Meaning of detassel

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.

Questions about detasselled

What is detasselled the simple past and past participle of?
Detasselled is the simple past and past participle of detassel.

Words near detasselled in the dictionary

  1. detartrating
  2. detartration
  3. detassel
  4. detasseled
  5. detasseling
  6. detasselled
  7. detasselling
  8. detassels
  9. detax
  10. detaxation
  11. detaxed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detasselled (page history and authors); detassel (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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