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Bittersweet   Listen
noun
Bittersweet  n.  
1.
Anything which is bittersweet.
2.
A kind of apple so called.
3.
(Bot.)
(a)
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.
(b)
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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"Bittersweet" Quotes from Famous Books



... known as Bittersweet, is a very desirable vine if it can be given something to twine itself about. It has neither tendril nor disc, and supports itself by twisting its new growth about trees over which it clambers, branches—anything that it can wind about. If no other support ...
— Amateur Gardencraft - A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover • Eben E. Rexford
... the Lord spoke one with another: "I cannot eat of the supper," said one; "The songs will be as a wolf's howlings in the wilderness," said another; "The honey will be as bittersweet as Adam's apple," said a third. But Satan exclaimed: "Come, let us seek in the Book of the Watchers for an act that will turn Him from ...
— My Neighbors - Stories of the Welsh People • Caradoc Evans
... friend now! She could sting, but she could make honey too. Bittersweet. I went with ...
— The Fifth Wheel - A Novel • Olive Higgins Prouty
... Evringham pressed her hand against the laces over her heart. "Such a bittersweet feeling comes over me at the very tones of your voice. Oh, the happy past, Nat! Gone forever!" She touched a dainty handkerchief to her eyes. "I suppose your mother is still ...
— Jewel - A Chapter In Her Life • Clara Louise Burnham


Words linked to "Bittersweet" :   bittersweet chocolate, Japanese bittersweet, Celastrus, semisweet, deadly nightshade, shrubby bittersweet, Japan bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, nightshade, woody nightshade, tasty, Solanum, sad, vine


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