Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A saxifragaceous genus of handsome flowering shrubs of China, and Japan, frequent in cultivation, bearing numerous panicles of white flowers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of shrubs with pretty white flowers, much cultivated.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of various shrubs of the genus Deutzia having usually toothed opposite leaves and shredding bark and white or pink flowers in loose terminal clusters
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Examples
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Deutzia _Deutzia_ 1-3 ft. White Hardy; flowers showy.
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw
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_ (DD) Pink flowers in very early spring and again in autumn; leaves evergreen; 1-1/2 ft. Deutzia, _Deutzia scabra_ (or _crenata_) and varieties.
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Deutzia ‘Chardonnay Pearls’ is one of those beauties.
Deutzia ‘Chardonnay Pearls’ — yowza « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2010
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Here it was a Deutzia, with starry cup-like blossoms; there a Spiræa, with spikes of milk-white plumes; here sprays of creamy Lantanas, and yonder clusters of tasselled Ageratum.
Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various
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Gaultheria arborea scarce, Deutzia on the descent to the Teemboo, Macrocapnos, Sterculia platanifolia, Melica latifolia!
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Here is a clump of shrubbery among which we see the _Weigela_, _Spiræas_, _Purple Fringe_, _Deutzia crenata_, _Hydrangea paniculata grandiflora_, the Syringa, and a number of other favorite shrubs.
Your Plants Plain and Practical Directions for the Treatment of Tender and Hardy Plants in the House and in the Garden James Sheehan
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Japanese shrub of recent introduction, with numerous white Deutzia-like flowers in long terminal racemes.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various
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Japanese Snow _Deutzia_ 1-3 ft. White Very beautiful when
The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Ellen Eddy Shaw
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Already the tenth day of the Deutzia month was over.
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920
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At midnight of the Deutzia month [April, 1024] a fire broke out, and the cat which had been waited on as a daughter of the First Adviser was burned to death.
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan b. 974? Murasaki Shikibu Izumi Shikibu 1920
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