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

[After Jan van der Deutz, 18th-century Dutch patron of botany.]

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • This is true of most fruit-trees, and such shrubs as lilac, forsythia, tree peony, wistaria, some spireas and viburnums, weigela, deutzia.

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

  • 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.

    Ethel Morton's Enterprise 1903

  • 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

  • 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

  • Other unique trees and shrubs include "Vardar Valley" and columnar "Dee Runk" boxwood, redvein enkianthus, 'Nikko' deutzia, Koreanspice viburnum, long-stalk holly; and 'George

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • •Prune back clematis (Group I, C. Montana rubens, for example) and deutzia after blooming.

    Columnist: Stephen Miller 2010

  • •Prune back clematis (Group I, C. Montana rubens, for example) and deutzia after blooming.

    Columnist: Stephen Miller 2010

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