Words Like BITTERSWEET
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10 definitions of bittersweet
1
Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
2
Anything which is bittersweet.
3
A kind of apple so called.
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A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.
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An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens), whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork.
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having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness
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poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
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twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
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A woody vine of the genus Celastrus, especially the North American species C. scandens and the eastern Asian species C. orbiculata, having small, round, yellow-orange fruits that open at maturity to expose red seeds. Also called staff tree.