a tuft of loose threads secured by a knot or ornamental knob, used to decorate soft furnishings, clothes, etc
2.
anything resembling this tuft, esp the tuft of stamens at the tip of a maize inflorescence
verbWord forms: -sels, -selling, -selledWord forms: US-sels, -seling or -seled
3. (transitive)
to adorn with a tassel or tassels
4. (intransitive)
(of maize) to produce stamens in a tuft
5. (transitive)
to remove the tassels from
Derived forms
tasselly (ˈtasselly) or US tassely (ˈtassely)
adjective
Word origin
C13: from Old French, from Vulgar Latin tassellus (unattested), changed from Latin taxillus a small die, from tālus gaming die
Examples of 'tasselling' in a sentence
tasselling
The data were collected at stages: 6 leafs, 10 leafs, 14 leafs, tasselling, floweringand physiological maturity.
Ivan Vilela Andrade Fiorini, Renzo Garcia Von Pinho, Helcio Duarte Pereira, LuizPaulo Miranda Pires, Fabrício Vilela Andrade Fiorini, Ewerton Lelys Resende 2017, 'Dry matter accumulation, chlorophyll and sulfur leaf in corn fertilized with differentsulfur sources', Journal of Bioenergy and Food Sciencehttp://periodicos.ifap.edu.br/index.php/JBFS/article/download/114/156. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Results also showed that both cultivars are prone to probable flooding events before the tasselling stage.
Robert Mangani, Eyob Habte Tesfamariam, Gianni Bellocchi, Abubeker Hassen 2018, 'Growth, Development, Leaf Gaseous Exchange, and Grain Yield Response of Maize Cultivarsto Drought and Flooding Stress', Sustainabilityhttp://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/10/3492. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)