first flush

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The first growth of buds, flowers, seeds, or whatever is harvested from a plant.
    — But, because the first flush of growth is from a preformed bud and subsequent flushes are from buds developed during the current growing season, chilling directly affects only the first flush.
  2. The beginning; the period of time when something is first starting. broadly
    — When however the first flush of our surprize is over we cannot fail to perceive that amid all this legerdemain there is a vast deal of nature united with that astonishing splendour of colouring which so many have tried to emulate.
  3. The flow of wastewater at the start of a storm or season, when runoff has the highest concentration of pollutants.
    — Several published data sets have been collected to evaluate the occurrence of a first flush of pollutants from urban watersheds.

词形变化

first flushes plural
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