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pretassel en · ADJ

Etymology

From pre- + tassel.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Before the appearance of the tassels (pollen-producing flowers) on corn.
    • The fall armyworm, scourge of young pretassel corn, grows up to be a nondescript brown moth about the length of a long finger’s knuckle. 2008 January 8, Guy Gugliotta, “To Raise Armyworms and Corn Borers, Study Insect Husbandry”, in New York Times: