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deutzia

deut·zia

uncommon

noun

1.

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

Origin

From the genus name, after Johann van der Deutz, 18th-century Dutch patron of botany.

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