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Definition of Detassel

1. to remove tassels from [v -SELED, -SELING, -SELS or -SELLED, -SELLING, -SELS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detassel

Literary usage of Detassel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Practical Nature Study and Elementary Agriculture: A Manual for the Use of by John Gaylord Coulter, Alice Jean Patterson (1909)
"Begin at one end of the first row, and detassel to the middle; then, beginning in the middle, detassel the other end of the second row, and so on. ..."

2. Plant Production by Ransom Asa Moore, Charles Parker Halligan (1919)
"detassel corn to prevent self-fertilization. Go into the ear-to-the-row test field just at the time when the tassels are beginning to show. ..."

3. Farm and School Problems for High Schools and Normals by Henry Louis Goll (1915)
"Experiments. CORN. 1. Cross varieties of uniform color. Plant these rows in an isolated place. detassel one row and pollinate the ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"37 Feb., 1895) upon 'Corn Experiments' of the Illinois Experiment Station in which detassel- ing receives ..."

5. Report by American Genetic Association (1907)
"(10) Do you detassel any of your rows? Entirely or in part? (11) What are the most striking results you have obtained? (12) What one result do you strive ..."

6. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society (1904)
"Good culture is indispensable, and before silk or tassel appears cut out or detassel all weak or barren stalks, and also all partially barren or nubbin ..."

7. Education for Efficiency: A Discussion of Certain Phases of the Problem of by Eugene Davenport (1914)
"... inbreed field corn, sweet corn and pop corn; plant the mixed kernels and note the character of crop. detassel and compare the yield of the ..."

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