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Definition of Bittersweet

• (a.) Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
• (n.) Anything which is bittersweet.
• (n.) A kind of apple so called.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) 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.

Synonyms of Bittersweet

• Bittersweet Nightshade
• Climbing Nightshade
• Deadly Nightshade
• Poisonous Nightshade
• Woody Nightshade
• Solanum Dulcamara
• American Bittersweet
• Climbing Bittersweet
• False Bittersweet
• Staff Vine
• Waxwork
• Shrubby Bittersweet
• Celastrus Scandens
• Semisweet

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Homophones of Bittersweet