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detassels

detassels is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 detassels

What is detassels the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Detassels is the third-person singular simple present indicative of detassel.

Words near detassels in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: detassels (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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