deutzia

American  

[doot-see-uh, dyoot-, doit-] / ˈdut si ə, ˈdyut-, ˈdɔɪt- /

noun

1. any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Deutzia, of the saxifrage family, having showy white, pink, or lavender flowers, grown as an ornamental.

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deutzia British  

/ ˈdjuːtsɪə /

noun

1. any saxifragaceous shrub of the genus Deutzia: cultivated for their clusters of white or pink spring-blooming flowers

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Etymology

Origin of deutzia

< New Latin (1781), named after Jean Deutz, 18th-century Dutch botanical patron; see -ia

Example Sentences

It was he who created four themed “rooms” in the garden, planted, variously, with narcissus, Japanese cherry trees, deutzia, hybrid lilacs and honeysuckle.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2021

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

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

If we take trees and shrubs, for example, we find such genera as pinus, cypress, berberis, quercus, viburnam, indigofera, and romeda, lonicera, deutzia, rubus, myrica, spiræ, ilex, and many others common to both countries.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

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.

From Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)

A big deutzia bush looms between his window and the road, while at my window only the tips of a waxberry bush obscure the view, and there is a door beside me.

From The Jonathan Papers by Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge