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Definition of Detasseled
1. detassel [v] - See also: detassel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detasseled
Literary usage of Detasseled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"Every alternate row of com in the breeding plot should be completely detasseled
before the pollen matures, and all of the seed corn to be taken from the ..."
2. Breeding Crop Plants by Herbert Kendall Hayes, Ralph John Garber (1921)
"Seed from the/e detasseled rows is used for commercial planting. This method
seems Worthy of more extensive trial. Such a cross was compared>Gt the ..."
3. Rural School Agriculture: Exercises for Use with Any Text-book of by Charles Wesley Davis (1907)
"Label all the detasseled rows. 2. When the corn is mature, ... Do likewise with
the rows not detasseled. QUESTIONS 1. Do you find any difference in the ..."
4. Report by New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station Botanical Dept (1908)
"... is as follows: A few stalks from among the best are detasseled and labeled
with date, etc.; a larger number of equally good stalks are left with their ..."
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