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Definition of Detasselled
1. detassel [v] - See also: detassel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detasselled
Literary usage of Detasselled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1906)
"If done carefully and conscientiously the silks on the plants in the detasselled
rows will be fertilized by pollen from the other rows and the resulting ..."
2. Annual Report of the Commissioner and the Board of Agriculture and Immigration by Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration, Virginia (1907)
"Some of the most indifferent stalks in the other rows were also detasselled, so
that the ears could only receive pollen from good stalks. ..."
3. Report of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell University by Cornell University, New York State College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station (1912)
"... of the ears which are to be used as the seed parents are planted in rows which
alternate with those to be crossed on them, the former being detasselled. ..."
4. Annual Report of the Commissioner and the Board of Agriculture and Immigration by Dept. of Agriculture and Immigration, Virginia (1904)
"When the . corn is tasselling all plants which are barren, imperfect, dwarfed,
or immature, should be detasselled before pollen forms, so that they cannot ..."
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