detasselling
/diːˈtæsəlɪŋ/
noun
- The process of removing the tassels (the top part) from corn plants to control pollination, usually to produce hybrid seed.
- The company hired a crew of 50 workers for the detasselling season.
- Detasselling is a common summer job for high school students in farming communities.
- Every summer, teenagers in the Midwest earn money by doing detasselling in the cornfields.
verb
- To remove the tassels from corn plants as part of hybrid seed production.
- They spent the whole morning detasselling rows of corn under the hot sun.
- My brother learned how to detassel corn when he was fourteen.
- Farmers detassel certain plants to prevent them from pollinating themselves.