0 present participle of flush
1 When you flush, you become red in the face, especially as a result of strong emotions, heat, or alcohol:
2 If you flush a toilet, or if a toilet flushes, its contents empty and it fills with water again:
However, there have been few studies on the environmental triggers of leaf flushing in tropical rain-forest trees under normal conditions of high rainfall.
Increasing day-length induces spring flushing of tropical dry forest trees in the absence of rain.
In other words, its major breeding-places must be those that are liable to flushing by precipitation runoff.
During the dry season, almost all plants lose their leaves and leaf flushing restarts with the first rains in the beginning of the wet season.
The response variable was the number of trees flushing leaves per plot per week and the binomial totals were the corresponding total numbers of individuals.
Flushes 4 and 5 conducted 4 d, and flushes 6 and 7, 5 d after initiation of the flushing process.
However, in dry forests, light reaching the understorey varies enormously through the annual cycle due to seasonality in leaf fall and leaf flushing.
The dihydropyridines mainly cause the vasodilatation problems of flushing, headache and dizziness, but palpitations and ankle oedema are also troublesome in many patients.
