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From the genus name, after Johann van der Deutz, 18th-century Dutch patron of botany.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: Any of a group of cultivated shrubs, of the genus Deutzia, having white or pink flowers Full definition →
From the genus name, after Johann van der Deutz, 18th-century Dutch patron of botany.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.