Usually means: Remove top pollen-producing flowers corn.
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  1. detassel: Merriam-Webster
  2. detassel: Collins English Dictionary
  3. detassel: Wordnik
  4. detassel: Wiktionary
  5. detassel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. detassel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (detassel)

▸ verb:  (US, transitive) To remove the pollen-bearing tassel from (a female maize plant) as part of the hybridization process.

Similar:
unflower, destem, desilk, dehaulm, de-tail, emasculate, destalk, depetal, deflorate, unpetal, more...

Opposite:
retassel, pollinate, fertilize

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Similar:
unflower, destem, desilk, dehaulm, de-tail, emasculate, destalk, depetal, deflorate, unpetal, more...

Opposite:
retassel, pollinate, fertilize



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