pretassel

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ tassel.

Adjective

pretassel (not comparable)

1. Before the appearance of the tassels (pollen-producing flowers) on corn.
   • 2008 January 8, Guy Gugliotta, “To Raise Armyworms and Corn Borers, Study Insect Husbandry”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

Anagrams

• pastelers, prelatess, relapsest, restaples, spearlets, taperless