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Meaning 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.