Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various shrubs of the genus Deutzia, cultivated for their clusters of white or pinkish flowers.
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- noun Any of a group of cultivated
shrubs , of the genus Deutzia, having white or pink flowers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I’m also including a picture of a “regular” deutzia, which is quite pretty — for 10 days out of the year.
Deutzia ‘Chardonnay Pearls’ — yowza « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2010
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Banks of black-eyed Susans with outdoor ferns, bowers of snowy dogwood in season and the fluffy wild pink azalea are very decorative, and so are the spring and early summer shrubs: syringa, deutzia, flowering almond and Japanese snowball.
Entertaining Made Easy Emily Rose Burt
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And now the numberless squares and triangles and grass-plots of the city are green as Dante's newly-broken emeralds, are a miracle of spotless deutzia and golden laburnum, honeysuckle and jasmine: half the houses are covered with ivies and grapevines; the
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various
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This is true of most fruit-trees, and such shrubs as lilac, forsythia, tree peony, wistaria, some spireas and viburnums, weigela, deutzia.
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They laughed at Ethel's description, but they listened attentively while she described the spiky white blossoms of deutzia and the winding white bands of the spiraea -- bridal wreath.
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Also flowering shrubs such as weingela, philadelphus and deutzia can be cut back after they have flowered towards the end of the month.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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Also flowering shrubs such as weingela, philadelphus and deutzia can be cut back after they have flowered towards the end of the month.
WalesOnline - Home 2011
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Other unique trees and shrubs include "Vardar Valley" and columnar "Dee Runk" boxwood, redvein enkianthus, 'Nikko' deutzia, Koreanspice viburnum, long-stalk holly; and 'George
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•Prune back clematis (Group I, C. Montana rubens, for example) and deutzia after blooming.
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•Prune back clematis (Group I, C. Montana rubens, for example) and deutzia after blooming.
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