Bittersweet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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.
  • n. See bittersweet nightshade.
  • n. A dark to deep reddish orange.
  • adj. Bitter and sweet at the same time: bittersweet chocolate.
  • adj. Producing or expressing a mixture of pain and pleasure: a movie with a bittersweet ending.
  • adj. Dark to deep reddish-orange.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Both bitter and sweet.
  • adj. Expressing contrasting emotions of pain and pleasure.
  • n. A vine, of the genus Celastrus, having small orange fruits that open to reveal red seeds.
  • n. The bittersweet nightshade, Solanum dulcamara.
  • n. A variety of apple with a bittersweet taste.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. 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.
  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Uniting bitterness and sweetness; pleasant and painful at the same time.
  • n. That which is both bitter and sweet: as, the bitter-sweet of life.
  • n. The woody nightshade, Solanum Dulcamara, a trailing plant, native of Europe and Asia, and naturalized in the United States.
  • n. Same as bitter-sweeting.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. tinged with sadness
  • adj. having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness
  • n. poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
  • n. twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
    • Equivalent
    sad    tasty   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    nightshade    vine   
    Variant
    roxbury waxwork   
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